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
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Quick Reference) Editorial Reviews Review Review from previous edition: "an excellent source book" --Times Higher Education Supplement "the most comprehensive dictionary of philosophy in English" --Times Literary Supplement About the Author Simon Blackburn is one of the UK's leading twenty-first century philosophers. He retired as professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 2011 and is now Collegial Professor at the New College of the Humanities. He remains a distinguished research professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was previously a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford and has taught full-time at the University of North Carolina as an Edna J. Koury Professor. Product Details Series: Oxford Quick Reference Paperback: 540 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press; 3 edition (May 1, 2016) Language: English
The Yeats anthology of the poems of William Blake is that great rarity: one great visionary poet's anthology of everything that moves him about another, even greater one. Yeats prepared it in 1905 and it probably remains the single greatest single one-volume edition of William Blake extant, the one that, in less than 250 pages, presents as sensibly compressed and canny an edition as you'll ever find of perhaps the least sensible and most chaotic genius of English poetry. Even those who have the complete Blake in a couple of editions will find Yeats' Blake all-but-indispensable. –Buffalo News, April 6, 2003 This selection of Blake's work was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats. Yeats, one of the few poets comparable to Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings.