Ioannis D. Evrigenis

Images of Anarchy (eBook, PDF)

The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes's State of Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

Hobbes's concept of the natural condition of mankind became an inescapable point of reference for subsequent political thought, shaping the theories of emulators and critics alike, and has had a profound impact on our understanding of human nature, anarchy, and international relations. Yet, despite Hobbes's insistence on precision, the state of nature is an elusive concept. Has it ever existed and, if so, for whom? Hobbes offered several answers to these questions, which taken together reveal a consistent strategy aimed at providing his readers with a possible, probable, and memorable account of the consequences of disobedience. This book examines the development of this powerful image throughout Hobbes's works, and traces its origins in his sources of inspiration. The resulting trajectory of the state of nature illuminates the ways in which Hobbes employed a rhetoric of science and a science of rhetoric in his relentless pursuit of peace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139989169
• Artikelnr.: 41107606

Autorenporträt

Ioannis D. Evrigenis is Associate Professor Political Science, with a secondary appointment in Classics, at Tufts University, Massachusetts, where he directs the Bodin Project. He is the author of Fear of Enemies and Collective Action, which received the Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science, and coeditor of Herder's Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I. A Græcian: 1. Politic historiography
2. Winning belief in the hearer
Part II. A Devotion to Peace: 3. Unobjectionable foundations: the elements of law, natural and politic
4. The birth of civil philosophy: De Cive
5. Reason of state: Leviathan
Part III. Images 'Historical or Fabulous': 6. Lapse and relapse, or, the first rebellion
7. Another scripture
8. America
Part IV. A Science of Rhetoric: 9. All things to all people
Epilogue.