Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum

by Nicholas D. Jackson

Book Overview

This book was the first full account of one of the most famous quarrels of the seventeenth century, that between the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the Anglican archbishop of Armagh, John Bramhall (1594-1663). This analytical narrative interprets that quarrel within its own immediate and complicated historical circumstances, the Civil Wars (1638-49) and Interregnum (1649-60). The personal clash of Hobbes and Bramhall is connected to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521181445
• ISBN13: 9780521181440
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"