Appropriating Hobbes: Legacies in Political, Legal, and International Thought

by David Boucher

This book explores how Hobbes's political philosophy has occupied a pertinent place in different contexts, and how his interpreters see their own images reflected in him, or how they define themselves in contrast to him. Appropriating Hobbes argues that there is no Hobbes independent of the interpretations that arise from his appropriation in these various contexts and which serve to present him to the world. There is no one perfect context that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198817215
• ISBN13: 9780198817215
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"