The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes

by Jeffrey R. Collins

Book Overview

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's evolving response to the English Revolution. It rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent, if idiosyncratic, royalist, and vindicates the contemporaneous view that the publication of Leviathan marked Hobbes's accommodation with England's revolutionary regime. In sustaining these conclusions, Professor Collins foregrounds the religious features...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199237646
• ISBN13: 9780199237647
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"