Images of anarchy: the rhetoric and science in Hobbes's state of nature 9780521513722, 0521513723, 9781316608005, 131660800X
Hobbes's concept of the natural condition of mankind became an inescapable point of reference for subsequent politi
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English Pages xi, 299 Seiten.: Illustrationen.; 24 cm [314] Year 2014;2016
Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Title page......Page 5
Copyright information......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
List of abbreviations......Page 13
Prologue......Page 15
Secretly Instructing the Readers......Page 26
A Kind of Science......Page 33
Part I A Græcian......Page 37
1 Politic Historiography......Page 39
The Unreliability of Self-Reliance......Page 45
The Historian’s Partiality......Page 46
Thucydides’ Solution: Letting Events Speak for Themselves......Page 49
A Rhetorician......Page 58
Part II A Devotion to Peace......Page 75
3 Unobjectionable Foundations......Page 77
Privation......Page 80
A Certain Equality, an Uncertain Anarchy......Page 85
4 The Birth of Civil Philosophy......Page 95
A Mirror of Princes......Page 102
The State of Men without Civil Society......Page 113
An Actual Contract......Page 125
5 Reason of State......Page 139
Epic Poetry......Page 164
Part III Images “Historical or Fabulous”......Page 171
6 Lapse and Relapse or the First Rebellion......Page 173
What Hobbes Said about Genesis......Page 180
What Hobbes Did Not Say about Genesis......Page 187
7 Another Scripture......Page 193
Thucydides, Anew......Page 204
8 America......Page 216
Part IV A Science of Rhetoric......Page 239
Elitism for All: Dissimulation and the Foolishness of the Wise......Page 241
Epilogue......Page 262
List of Manuscripts......Page 271
Bibliography......Page 273
Index......Page 301
