Leviathan Paperback Wordsworth Classics of World Literature By (author) Thomas Hobbes Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Format: Paperback | 592 pages Dimensions: 129mm x 198mm x 15mm | 402g Publication date: 14 July 2014 Publication City/Country: Herts ISBN 10: 1840227338 ISBN 13: 9781840227338 Product de*ion With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and religious warfare of the mid-seventeenth century, it proposes a political theory that combines an unequivocal commitment to natural human liberty with the conviction that the sovereign power of government must be exercised absolutely. Leviathan begins from some shockingly naturalistic starting-points: an analysis of
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