Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat - James Martel - Books - Columbia University Press - 9780231139847 - October 12, 2007
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Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat

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Argues that although Thomas 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. Making the leap to politics, the author suggests that following Hobbes's argument, the sovereign can also be seen as idolatrous.

240 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released October 12, 2007
ISBN13 9780231139847
Publishers Columbia University Press
Pages 240
Dimensions 217 × 149 × 28 mm   ·   492 g

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