Thomas Hobbes: Skepticism, Individuality, and Chastened Politics [antikvár]

Series Editor's IntroductionRichard E. Flathman's Thomas Hobbes: Skepticism, Individuality and Chastened Politics is the second volume to appear in the Sage Series Modernity and Political Thought. Flathman's work follows the recent publication of the inaugural volume in the series, William Connolly's The Augustinian Imperative: A Reflection on the Politics of Morality, and shortly will be joined by Fred Dallmayr's study of G.W.F. Hegel and by Michael Shapiro's inquiry into the thought of Adam Smith. The series will continue with books on selected past political thinkers by leading contemporary political theorists. These will include a study of Hannah Arendt by Seyla Benhabib, of Edmund Burke by Stephen White, Michel Foucault by Thomas Dumm, Sigmund Freud by Jean Elshtain, Friedrich Nietzsche by Benjamin Barber, Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Tracy Strong, Ralph Waldo Emerson by George Kateb, and Henry David Thoreau by Jane Bennett. As those who are familiar with the previous works of these authors will expect, these studies adopt a variety of approaches and pose importantly different questions. As contributors to Modernity and Political Thought, however, their efforts also are commonly devoted to effecting critical