Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat

by James Martel

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although 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.

Martel demonstrates that Hobbes's radical method of reading not only undermines his own authority in the text, but, by extension, the authority of the sovereign...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231139845
• ISBN13: 9780231139847
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher