''The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short''

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes'' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes'' case for a ''common-wealth'' under a powerful sovereign - or ''Leviathan'' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was publishedBut his penetrating work of political philosophy opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world.

Edited with an Introduction by Christopher Brooke

Format Häftad Omfång 688 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Penguin Books Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2017-07-27 ISBN 9780141395098