History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes /
Kraynak, Robert
History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes / Robert Kraynak. - 1 online resource (240 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The History of Barbarism and Civilization -- 2. The Behemoth: Doctrinal Politics and the English Civil War -- 3. The Methodical Analysis of Opinion -- 4. The Science of Enlightenment -- 5. The Enlightened Mind and the Science of Nature -- 6. The Enlightened Mind and the Science of Politics -- 7. Absolute Sovereignty and the End of Doctrinal Warfare -- 8. The Dogmatism of the Enlightenment and the New Doctrinal Politics -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
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Robert Kraynak offers a radical reinterpretation of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes and a new assessment of Hobbes's contribution to the origins and problems of modernity. The author argues that it is necessary to examine a neglected facet of Hobbes's thought—his writings on history, especially Behemoth, his lengthy study of the English Civil War. Through a close reading of these works, Kraynak shows how Hobbes came to consider the possibility of a new kind of political science, one that is supremely confident of the power of critical reason to overcome the authorities of the past to build a new form of civilization yet uncertain about reason's foundations.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501745997
10.7591/9781501745997 doi
Historiography--History--Great Britain--17th century.
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General.
DA400.H63K73 1990
941.06/2
History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes / Robert Kraynak. - 1 online resource (240 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The History of Barbarism and Civilization -- 2. The Behemoth: Doctrinal Politics and the English Civil War -- 3. The Methodical Analysis of Opinion -- 4. The Science of Enlightenment -- 5. The Enlightened Mind and the Science of Nature -- 6. The Enlightened Mind and the Science of Politics -- 7. Absolute Sovereignty and the End of Doctrinal Warfare -- 8. The Dogmatism of the Enlightenment and the New Doctrinal Politics -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Robert Kraynak offers a radical reinterpretation of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes and a new assessment of Hobbes's contribution to the origins and problems of modernity. The author argues that it is necessary to examine a neglected facet of Hobbes's thought—his writings on history, especially Behemoth, his lengthy study of the English Civil War. Through a close reading of these works, Kraynak shows how Hobbes came to consider the possibility of a new kind of political science, one that is supremely confident of the power of critical reason to overcome the authorities of the past to build a new form of civilization yet uncertain about reason's foundations.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501745997
10.7591/9781501745997 doi
Historiography--History--Great Britain--17th century.
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General.
DA400.H63K73 1990
941.06/2