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Taming the Leviathan : = the reception of the political and religious ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England, 1640-1700 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Taming the Leviathan :/ Jon Parkin.
Reminder of title:	the reception of the political and religious ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England, 1640-1700 /
Author:	Parkin, Jon
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 449 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Political science - History - 17th century. - Great Britain -
Subject:	Great Britain - Politics and government - 1997- -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720499
ISBN:	9780511720499 (ebook)

Taming the Leviathan : = the reception of the political and religious ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England, 1640-1700 /
Parkin, Jon1969-

Taming the Leviathan :the reception of the political and religious ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England, 1640-1700 /Jon Parkin. - 1 online resource (xi, 449 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Ideas in context ;82. - Ideas in context ;75..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Reading Hobbes before Leviathan (1640-1651) -- Leviathan (1651-1654) -- The storm (1654-1658) -- Restoration (1658-1666) -- Hobbes and Hobbism (1666-1675) -- Hobbes and the Restoration crisis (1675-1685) -- Hobbism in the glorious revolution (1685-1700).

Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Originally published in 2007, Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes's ideas. In the first book-length treatment of the topic for over forty years, Jon Parkin follows the fate of Hobbes's texts (particularly Leviathan) and the development of his controversial reputation during the seventeenth century, revealing the stakes in the critical discussion of the philosopher and his ideas. Revising the traditional view that Hobbes was simply rejected by his contemporaries, Parkin demonstrates that Hobbes's work was too useful for them to ignore, but too radical to leave unchallenged. His texts therefore had to be controlled, their lessons absorbed and their author discredited. In other words the Leviathan had to be tamed. Taming the Leviathan significantly revised our understanding of the role of Hobbes and Hobbism in seventeenth-century England.

ISBN: 9780511720499 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

574939
Hobbes, Thomas,
1588-1679.Subjects--Topical Terms:

803008
Political science
--History--Great Britain--17th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

556459
Great Britain
--Politics and government--1997-

LC Class. No.: JC153.H66 / P37 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 320.1092

Taming the Leviathan : = the reception of the political and religious ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England, 1640-1700 /
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