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Mortal Gods : Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas Hobbes / Ted H. Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) : 4 illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780271056852
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  • 192 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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