LEVIATHAN: Or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill
by Hobbes, Thomas
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good -/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0300118384
- ISBN 13
- 9780300118384
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About This Item
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. (2010), 583pp, ed. by Ian Shapiro, slight rubbing & shelfwear to cover, slight bend to center of front cover, some underlining to introduction, rest of text is clean & unmarked.. Trade Paperback. Very Good -/No Jacket.
Synopsis
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the structure of government and society and argues for strong central governance and the rule of an absolute sovereign as the way to avoid civil war and chaos.
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- Bookseller
- Russ States (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-0793
- Title
- LEVIATHAN: Or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill
- Author
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0300118384
- ISBN 13
- 9780300118384
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Politics, History
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