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Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state".
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Noel Malcolm is a General Editor of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes. He has been a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Foreign Editor of The Spectator, and political columnist of the Daily Telegraph. He left journalism in 1995 in order to concentrate on scholarly research and writing. Since then he has been a Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University, and Carlyle Lecturer at Oxford University. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.
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"Malcolm's work contributes significantly to our understanding of both Hobbes and early modern reason of state."--Thomas Turley, Renaissance Quarterly
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0199215936
- ISBN 13 9780199215935
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes: a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state." This is a crisp copy that has been read and marked up. There is a full page of notes written in ink on the page opposite the inside end paper. There is also some underlining on pp. 114-21, 166, 180, 182, 188, and 190. No other pages are marked. Seller Inventory # 7
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Condition: Sehr gut. X, 227 p., plates. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Preface -- A Note on Dates and Transcriptions -- 1. Hobbes's Early Career -- 2. The Translation: Authorship, Date, and Style -- 3. The 'Secretissima instructin' Texts -- 4. The Distribution of the Altera secretissima instructio in England -- 5. Palatine Politics: Cavendish, Mansfield, and Hobbes -- 6. 'Reason of State' and Hobbes -- Hobbes's Translation of Altera secretissima instructio -- Altera secretissima instructio. - This book presents a hitherto unnoticed manuscript translation, by Thomas Hobbes, of a Latin propaganda pamphlet produced by the Habsburg side during the Thirty Years' War. The text of the translation is reproduced, with explanatory notes; the text of the original Latin is also given, to enable readers to make a closer study of Hobbes's practice as a translator; and in six introductory chapters I set out not only my reasons for identifying this anonymous manuscript as a translation by Hobbes, but also my thoughts on the background to the translation, the nature of the text itself, and the possible significance of this discovery for the study of Hobbes. On this last point I have tried not to over-state my case. The original pamphlet was not written by Hobbes, and it is very likely that the task of translating it was simply imposed on him by one or other of his patrons. Nevertheless, the fact that Hobbes must have attended very closely to this particular text is of some real interest where his intellectual biography is concernedespecially since the translation took place in the early part of his career, for which very litde biographical evidence is available. That this pamphlet was regarded as worthy of such attention by one of his patrons also tells us something about the political interests of the circles in which Hobbes moved; that topic too is explored in one of the introductory chapters here. And the text itself is an unusually fascinating specimen of early seventeenth-century propaganda literaturea cynical, ingenious, and extremely well-informed piece of writing which should be of interest to historians of the Thirty Years' War, and of the polemical practices of the period, even without its Hobbesian connections. Hobbes's translation is therefore quite heavily annotated here, since the notes are intended to satisfy a number of different requirements: in addition to recording errors and omissions in the translation, they not only identify persons, places, and events, but also indicate (where possible) the degree to which the pamphlet's claims were based on accurate information, or were distorted for propagandistic purposes. Finally, since the last few pages of Hobbes's translation are missing, I have supplied my own translation of that part of the text, so that readers may consideras Hobbes himself must have donethe claims and arguments of the entire work. ISBN 9780199215935 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 396 Original cloth with dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 1171397
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