Leviathan

  • Leviathan: Body Politic as Visual Strategy in the Work of Thomas Hobbes
    Leviathan: Body Politic as Visual Strategy in the Work of Thomas Hobbes
    By Horst Bredekamp

    Horst Bredekamp's subject is the astute deployment and perennial resonance of the startling image of the body politic that dominates the frontispiece to Leviathan: a treatise on the psychology of the individual and the dynamic of the ...

  • Leviathan
    Leviathan
    By R. M. Huffman

    impact of the disk on the leviathan's skull was audible, even across the river. ... No pretense of stealth marred the leviathan's furious dart into the river. ... Like a waking nightmare, the leviathan followed at his heels.

  • Leviathan
    Leviathan
    By Paul Auster

    The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron.

  • Leviathan
    Leviathan
    By Thomas Hobbes

    Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. This new edition reproduces the first printed text, retaining the original punctuation but modernizing the spelling.

  • Leviathan
    Leviathan
    By Thomas Hobbes

    Beschouwing over de staat door de Engelse wijsgeer (1588-1679).

  • Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty
    Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty
    By Clint Bolick

    In Leviathan, renowned public interest attorney Bolick describes how the unchecked growth of local governments is eroding our nation's productive vitality and threatening us with "grassroots tyranny"—and ultimately reveals that, although ...

  • Leviathan
    Leviathan
    By Thomas Hobbes

    By a deep and careful analysis of the text, enabling a new printing history of Leviathan to be constructed, this edition demonstrates that the traditional picture is substantially wrong.

  • Leviathan
    Leviathan
    By Thomas Hobbes

    Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, first published in 1904, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of...

  • Leviathan: Part 2
    By Thomas Hobbes

    And this is the foundation of that right of Punishing, which is exercised in every Common-wealth.

  • Leviathan
    Leviathan
    By Ian Edginton

    Leviathan, the world's largest ocean liner, has been lost for tweny years in a desolate mist-laden ocean.

  • Leviathan: The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill
    Leviathan: The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill
    By Thomas Hobbes

    Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract.

  • Leviathan: Bestsellers and famous Books
    Leviathan: Bestsellers and famous Books
    By Thomas Hobbes

    Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.

  • Leviathan
    Leviathan
    By Thomas Hobbes

    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.

  • Leviathan
    Leviathan
    By Thomas Hobbes

    Carefully and faithfully edited by "one of our most astute commentators on Hobbes's political theory" (Jeremy Waldron), the Norton Library edition of Leviathan features the complete text of the work, with spelling and punctuation ...