TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Ted H.
TI  - Mortal Gods: Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas Hobbes 
SN  - 9780271056852
U1  - 192 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Introduction --; 2 The Humanist Face of Hobbes's Mathematics, Part 1 --; 3 Constraints That Enable the Imitation of God --; 4 King of the Children of Pride: The Imitation of God in Context --; 5 Architectonic Ambitions: Mathematics and the Demotion of Physics --; 6 Eloquence and the Audience Thesis --; 7 All Other Doctrines Exploded: Hobbes, History, and the Struggle over Teaching --; 8 The Humanist Face of Hobbes's Mathematics, Part 2: Leviathan and the Making of a Masque-Text --; 9 Conclusion --; Appendix: Who Is a Geometer? --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from humanism to the scientific study of politics. In Mortal Gods, Ted Miller radically revises this view, arguing that Hobbes never ceased to be a humanist. While previous scholars have made the case for Hobbes as humanist by looking to his use of rhetoric, Miller rejects the humanism/mathematics dichotomy altogether and shows us the humanist face of Hobbes's affinity for mathematical learning and practice. He thus reconnects Hobbes with the humanists who admired and cultivated mathematical learning-and with the material fruits of Great Britain's mathematical practitioners. The result is a fundamental recasting of Hobbes's project, a recontextualization of his thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and the court culture of the Stuart regimes. Mortal Gods stands as a new challenge to contemporary political theory and its settled narratives concerning politics, rationality, and violence
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271056852?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271056852
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271056852/original
ER  -