Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat

Columbia University Press (2007)
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In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the ...

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9780231139847   0231139845   9780231147941   9780231511483

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10.7312/mart13984

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Hobbes’s Use of Rhetoric

2. Public and Private Reading

3. A Skeptical Theology?

4. False Idols and Political Representation

5. The True Covenant

6. “The Fellowship of the Holy Spirit”

Conclusion : Politics Without Sovereignty

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