Three Discourses: A Critical Modern Edition of Newly Identified Work of the Young Hobbes

by Thomas Hobbes

Book Overview

For the first time in three centuries, this book brings back into print three discourses now confirmed to have been written by the young Thomas Hobbes. Their contents may well lead to a resolution of the long-standing controversy surrounding Hobbes's early influences and the subsequent development of his thought. The volume begins with the recent history of the discourses, first published as part of the anonymous seventeenth-century work, Horae...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226345467
• ISBN13: 9780226345468
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"