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The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
Hardback
Main Details
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The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
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Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Tom Sorell
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Series | Cambridge Companions to Philosophy |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:420 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Western philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900 |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521410199
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Classifications | Dewey:192 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
Illustrations |
10 Line drawings, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
26 January 1996 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such subjects as history, law, and religion. He also produced full-scale treatises in physics, optics, and geometry. All of these areas are covered in this Companion, most in considerable detail. The volume also reflects the multidisciplinary nature of current Hobbes scholarship by drawing together perspectives that are now being developed in parallel by philosophers, historians of science and mathematics, intellectual historians, political scientists, and literary theorists.
Reviews'... a substantial reference work for quite advanced students, providing articles on all the widely varied aspects of the work of seventeenth-century England's most outstanding philosopher prior to Locke.' Robert Burns, The Expository Times
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