Hobbes (The Routledge Philosophers)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415283280 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is clearly and accessibly written, comprehensive, up-to-date on current scholarship, well-organised and often humorous. Lloyd, University of Southern California. No serious student of Hobbes or early modern philosophy should ignore this book.' - Paul Kelly, London School of Economics'This is an excellent book, well-suited to the Routledge Philosophers series. Teachers will find it very helpful.' - S.A. I think undergraduates will find the book both readable and enjoyable. 'In short, this is a fine and authoritative study by an acknowledged master of his subject
He is the author of A Hobbes Dictionary (Blackwell, 1995), Hobbes: A Biography (CUP, 2000) and the editor of Philosophy of Language (OUP, 2000). . A.P.Martinich is Professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin
He then introduces and assesses, in clear chapters, Hobbes' contributions to fundamental areas of philosophy: epistemology and metaphysics, in particular Hobbes' materialism and determinism and his relation to Descartesethics and political philosophy, concentrating on Hobbes' most famous work, Leviathan, and the theory of the social contract it advancesphilosophy of science, logic and language, considering Hobbes' theory of nominalism and his writing on rhetoric and the uses of language; religion, examining Hobbes' analyses of revelation, prophets and miracles. The final chapter considers the legacy of
"THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF HOBBES" according to Steven H Propp. A.P. Martinich is an analytic philosopher who has an emphasis on the history of political thought, and he is the author of this great biography.Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher, most remembered today for his seminal work of political philosophy, Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668. Hobbes served as a secretary to Francis Bacon for some time, and Martinich notes, "Not even his friends liked Bacon."Martinich observes that "Although he would sharpen the ar. As Close to the Standard Edition As It Gets One, if not the first, in a series of biographies of European philosophers by Cambridge University Press, this volume more than holds its own and is bound to becomne the standard text on the life of Thomas Hobbes.Deftly written and extremely well researched, this is a volume not only for the scholar of English philosophy or history, but for the well-read layman as well. Martinich presents his subject chronologically, as any good biography should, with brief stopovers for analysis of each Hobbes text b. "Levity" according to toronto. This is a very competent biography of Hobbes, laced with the author's sardonic (and often very funny) asides and comments. We could probably do without some of the comments, as they are occasionally self indulgent, but they do liven up some dry times in the exposition. They also chime somewhat with Hobbes' notorious cantankerousness. For contemporary philosophers,among the most important ideas are those stemming from the ruthlessness with which Hobbes pursued the relationship between states of nature,