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History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes / Robert Kraynak.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1990Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501745997
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941.06/2
LOC classification:
  • DA400.H63K73 1990
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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