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| Reviews |
| - 'Aspects of Hobbes
is a work of profound scholarship, displaying a breadth and depth of erudition that is beyond praise. But it is much more than that: Malcolm never loses the reader in the fascinating details of Hobbes's intellectual background and influence that he has uncovered. By linking the minutiae of his life and times with the core claims of his works he has given us a remarkable
study in early modern European intellectual history.
' - New Statesman
- 'Many have written on Hobbes, but few have had the wealth and depth of historical knowledge, the linguistic and bibliographic skills and, most significantly, the philosophical rigorousness which Malcolm deploys consistently in Aspects of Hobbes, a collection of 14 impressive, and often also delightful, scholarly papers.' - The Spectator
- 'Magnificent ... The book is a monument to scholarship. It shows what can be achieved when a fine historian gets to grips with a great philosopher.' - Times Literary Supplement
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| Description | | - A landmark in Hobbes studies
- Long-awaited, from one of Britain's most versatile and brilliant writers
- A virtuoso display of historical, philosophical, and literary scholarship
- Presents important new information, discoveries, and solutions to long-discussed problems
- Contains the first general survey ever written of Hobbes's influence on early modern European thought
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Noel Malcolm, one of the world's leading experts on Thomas Hobbes, presents a set of extended essays on a wide variety of aspects of the life and work of this giant of early modern thought. Malcolm offers a succinct introduction to Hobbes's life and thought, as a foundation for his discussion of such topics as his political philosophy, his theory of international relations, the development of
his mechanistic world-view, and his subversive Biblical criticism. Several of the essays pay special attention to the European dimensions of Hobbes's life, his sources and his influence; the longest surveys the entire European reception of his work from the 1640s to the 1750s. All the essays are based on a deep knowledge of primary sources, and many present striking new discoveries about Hobbes's
life, his manuscripts, and the printing history of his works. Aspects of Hobbes
will be essential reading not only for Hobbes specialists, but also for all those interested in seventeenth-century intellectual history more generally, both British and European.
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Readership: Scholars and graduate students of the history of philosophical, political, religious, and scientific thought; all readers interested in seventeenth century intellectual history.
| Contents |
Preface
1.
A Summary Biography of Hobbes
2.
Hobbes and Spinoza
3.
Hobbes, Sandys, and the Virginia Company
4.
Robert Payne, the Hobbes Manuscripts, and the 'Short Tract'
5.
Hobbes's Science of Politics and his Theory of Science
6.
Hobbes and Roberval
7.
The Titlepage of Leviathan
, Seen in a Curious Perspective
8.
Charles Cotton, Translator of Hobbes's De cive
9.
Pierre de Cardonnel (1614-1667): Merchant, Printer, Poet, and Reader of Hobbes
10.
Hobbes and the Royal Society
11.
The Printing of the Bear: New Light on the Second Edition of Hobbes' Leviathan
12.
Hobbes, Ezra and the Bible: The History of a Subversive Idea
13.
Hobbes's Theory of International Relations
14.
Hobbes and the European Republic of Letters
List of Manuscripts
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Noel Malcolm, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
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