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 multitude, published in 1651 by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Affirming the centrality of such a figural device for this pioneering theorist of the state, Bredekamp goes on to address the art-historical dimension...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110681366
• ISBN13: 9783110681369
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.6"