The elements of representation in Hobbes : aesthetics, theatre, law, and theology in the construction of Hobbes's theory of the state / / by Mónica Brito Vieira.

Commentators have traditionally constructed Hobbes's thinking on representation too narrowly, as a self-contained area of his political theory. This book challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, which owes less to Hobbes’s thought than to contemporary preconceptions of what counts as po...

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Superior document:Studies in the history of political thought, v. 2
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies in the history of political thought ; v. 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / M. Brito Vieira
  • Introduction / M. Brito Vieira
  • 1. Aesthetic Representation / M. Brito Vieira
  • 2. Dramatic Representation / M. Brito Vieira
  • 3. Juridical Representation / M. Brito Vieira
  • 4. Representation In Theology / M. Brito Vieira
  • Conclusion / M. Brito Vieira
  • Bibliography / M. Brito Vieira
  • Index / M. Brito Vieira.