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Author | : David Johnston |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 069121932X |
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The description for this book, The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, will be forthcoming.
Author | : Raia Prokhovnik |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000448916 |
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Originally published in 1991. This book explicitly examines rhetoric as the art of persuasion in the practical world, and as in the expression of thinking in the language a speaker uses. It presents Leviathan in terms of the philosophical character of the work considered through Hobbes’ use of language to express and organise his thought. Throughout, the nature of the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy is discussed and the problems of language in philosophical understanding. The book is concerned with Hobbes’ political philosophy and his views on figurative language, interest in literary theory and particularly his allegory. A special feature is the chapter on engraved title pages in Leviathan and other texts of the era.
Author | : James R. Martel |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : 9780231139847 |
Download Subverting the Leviathan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 book by returning it to the reader. Martel demonstrates that Hobbes's radical method of reading not only undermines his own authority in the text, but, by extension, the authority of the sovereign as well. To make his point, Martel looks closely at Hobbes's understanding of religious and rhetorical representation. In Leviathan, idolatry is not just a matter of worshipping images but also a consequence of bad reading. Hobbes speaks of the "error of separated essences," in which a sign takes precedence over the idea or object it represents, and warns that when the sign is given such agency, it becomes a disembodied fantasy leading to a "kingdom of darkness." To combat such idolatry, Hobbes offers a method of reading in which one resists the rhetorical manipulation of figures and tropes and recognizes the codes and structures of language for what they are-the only way to convey a fundamental inability to ever know "the thing itself." Making the leap to politics, Martel suggests that following Hobbes's argument, the sovereign can also be seen as idolatrous--a separated essence--a figure who supplants the people it purportedly represents, and that learning to be better readers enables us to challenge, if not defeat, the authority of the sovereign.
Author | : Quentin Skinner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1996-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521554367 |
Download Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.
Author | : Raia Prokhovnik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : Quentin Skinner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108622437 |
Download From Humanism to Hobbes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli's The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare's plays, notably Coriolanus. The second half of the book examines the humanist background to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. A major new essay discusses his typically humanist preoccupation with the visual presentation of his political ideas, while other chapters explore the rhetorical sources of his theory of persons and personation, thereby offering new insights into his views about citizenship, political representation, rights and obligations and the concept of the state.
Author | : Thomas Hobbes |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012-10-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 048612214X |
Download Leviathan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Author | : Karen S. Feldman |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2006-07-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0810122812 |
Download Binding Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Conscience, as Binding Words convincingly argues, can only ever be understood, interpreted, and made effective through tropes and figures of language.
Author | : G. John Ikenberry |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2012-08-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691156174 |
Download Liberal Leviathan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in providing security and prosperity to more people, but in the last decade the American-led order has been troubled. Some argue that the Bush administration undermined it. Others argue that we are witnessing he end of the American era. In Liberal Leviathan G. John Ikenberry argues that the crisis that besets the American-led order is a crisis of authority. The forces that have triggered this crisis have resulted from the successful functioning and expansion of the postwar liberal order, not its breakdown.
Author | : John T. Harwood |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2009-03-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0809386828 |
Download The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (1588–1677) and Bernard Lamy (1640–1715) Hobbes’ A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique, the first English translation of Aristotle’s rhetoric, reflects Hobbes’ sense of rhetoric as a central instrument of self-defense in an increasingly fractious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as “that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer,” the Briefe looks forward to Hobbes’ great political works De Cive and Leviathan. Published anonymously in France as De l’art de parler, Lamy’s rhetoric was translated immediately into English as The Art of Speaking. Lamy’s long association with the Port Royalists made his works especially attractive to English readers because Port Royalists were engaged in a vicious quarrel with the Jesuits during the last half of the 17th century.