Product Description: Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—commonly referred to as Leviathan—is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 . Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan...read more

Leviatán, o La materia, forma y poder de una república eclesiástica y civil (en el original en inglés: Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil), comúnmente llamado Leviatán, es el libro más conocido del filósofo político inglés Thomas Hobbes. Publicado en 1651, su título hace referencia al monstruo bíblico Leviatán, de poder descomunal ("Nadie hay tan osado que lo despierte... De su grandeza tienen temor los fuertes... No hay sobre la Tierra quien se le parezca, animal hecho exento de temor. Menosprecia toda cosa alta; es rey sobre todos los soberbios").1 La obra de Hobbes, marcadamente materialista,2 puede entenderse como una justificación del Estado absoluto, a la vez que como la proposición teórica del contrato social, y establece una doctrina de derecho moderno como base de las sociedades y de los gobiernos legítimos.

Product Description: CLASSIC LITERATUREComplete EditionLeviathanBy Thomas Hobbes1651Leviathan or the matter, Forme, & Power Of A Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical And CivilLeviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—commonly referred to as Leviathan—is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668)...read more

'De Cive' is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. Originally written in Latin and published in Paris in 1642, the book made its debut in London in 1651 under the title 'Philosophical rudiments concerning government and society'. The book anticipates themes of Thomas Hobbes' most famous work 'Leviathan'.

The leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace, and security to be attained? Hobbes' answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods: Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry. Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan was, in Hobbes' lifetime, publicly burnt and even condemned in Parliament as one of the causes of the Great Fire of London in 1666. Its current appeal lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its overriding concern for peace, its systematic analysis of power, and its convincing apologia for the then-emergent market society in which we still live.