Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107000599 ISBN 13: 9781107000599

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists, and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth century English philosopher, can illuminate the political and social problems we face today. Its essays demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Hobbes's political thought on such issues as justice, human rights, public reason, international warfare, punishment, fiscal policy, and the design of positive law, among others. The volume's contributors include both Hobbes specialists and philosophers bringing their expertise to consideration of Hobbes's texts for the first time. This volume will stimulate renewed interest in Hobbes studies among a new generation of thinkers.

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Book Description:

This volume examines the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes can illuminate the political and social problems we face today. Its essays demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Hobbes's political thought on such issues as justice, human rights, public reason, international warfare, punishment, fiscal policy, and the design of positive law.

About the Author:

S. A. Lloyd is Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Political Science at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Cases in the Law of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107000599
• ISBN 13: 9781107000599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 353
• Editor: Lloyd S. A.