Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics

by Samantha Frost

Book Overview

Thomas Hobbes is an iconic figure who serves as an easy reference for pundits commenting on the brutality of war as well as for critics of a distinctly modern individualism in which calculating and rapacious self-interest is the cause of the violence, destruction, and exploitation endemic to the contemporary world. Frost's reading of Hobbes's philosophy shows us that underlying such visions of self and politics is another iconic figure: that of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757488
• ISBN13: 9780804757485
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.9"