The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism

by R.G. Collingwood

Book Overview

The New Leviathan, originally published in 1942, a few months before the author's death, is the book which R. G. Collingwood chose to write in preference to completing his life's work on the philosophy of history. It was a reaction to the Second World War and the threat which Nazism and Fascism constituted to civilization. The book draws upon many years of work in moral and political philosophy and attempts to establish the multiple and complex connections...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198238800
• ISBN13: 9780198238805
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"