Hobbes Today (eBook, ePUB)

Insights for the 21st Century
Redaktion: Lloyd, S. A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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' 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' texts for the first time. This volume will stimulate renewed interest in Hobbes studies among a new generation of thinkers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139853699
• Artikelnr.: 56549494

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's introduction S. A. Lloyd; Part I. Application to Problems of
Governmental Powers and their Limits: 1. Supporting a normative order
through Hobbesian reasoning Joshua Cohen; 2. A note on Hobbesian lessons on
bipartisanship David Braybrooke; 3. Hobbes' theory of rights: a new
application Eleanor Curran; 4. Hobbesian legal reasoning and the problem of
wicked laws Claire Finkelstein; 5. Hobbesian equality Kinch Hoekstra; 6.
The representation of Hobbesian sovereignty: Leviathan as mythology Arash
Abizadeh; Part II. Application to Civil Society and Domestic Institutions:
7. On public and private conscience: public reason and religious
convictions in Leviathan G. F. Gaus; 8. 'Thrown amongst many': Hobbes on
taxation and fiscal policy Neil McArthur; 9. The imperfect legitimacy of
punishment Alice Ristroph; 10. In harm's way: Hobbes on the duty to fight
for one's country Susanne Sreedhar; 11. Confronting jihad: a defect in the
Hobbesian educational strategy Maryam Qudrat; Part III. Application to
Problems of Global Scope: 12. Hobbesian realism in international relations:
a reappraisal Chris Naticchia; 12. Hobbesian assurance problems and global
justice Aaron James; 13. International relations, world government, and the
ethics of war: a Hobbesian perspective S. A. Lloyd; 14. Hobbesian defenses
of orthodox just war theory Jeff McMahan; 15. Hobbes and human rights
Michael Green.