An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.

An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.

Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy. This book offers a new reading of his intellectual development, arguing that he was du

The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book f

Argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis - the idea that language is a cultural innovation tha