The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Tom Sorell
SeriesCambridge Companions to Philosophy
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:420
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780521410199
ClassificationsDewey:192
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 10 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 26 January 1996
Publication Country United Kingdom

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