The Rhetoric Of Leviathan
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The Rhetoric Of Leviathan
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Author : David Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
The Rhetoric Of Leviathan written by David Johnston and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Philosophy categories.
The description for this book, The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, will be forthcoming.
Rhetoric And Philosophy In Hobbes Leviathan
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Author : Raia Prokhovnik
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-31
Rhetoric And Philosophy In Hobbes Leviathan written by Raia Prokhovnik and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-31 with Philosophy categories.
Originally published in 1991. This book explicitly examines rhetoric as the art of persuasion in the practical world, and as in the expression of thinking in the language a speaker uses. It presents Leviathan in terms of the philosophical character of the work considered through Hobbes’ use of language to express and organise his thought. Throughout, the nature of the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy is discussed and the problems of language in philosophical understanding. The book is concerned with Hobbes’ political philosophy and his views on figurative language, interest in literary theory and particularly his allegory. A special feature is the chapter on engraved title pages in Leviathan and other texts of the era.
Subverting The Leviathan
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Author : James R. Martel
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007
Subverting The Leviathan written by James R. Martel and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Political science categories.
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader. Martel demonstrates that Hobbes's radical method of reading not only undermines his own authority in the text, but, by extension, the authority of the sovereign as well. To make his point, Martel looks closely at Hobbes's understanding of religious and rhetorical representation. In Leviathan, idolatry is not just a matter of worshipping images but also a consequence of bad reading. Hobbes speaks of the "error of separated essences," in which a sign takes precedence over the idea or object it represents, and warns that when the sign is given such agency, it becomes a disembodied fantasy leading to a "kingdom of darkness." To combat such idolatry, Hobbes offers a method of reading in which one resists the rhetorical manipulation of figures and tropes and recognizes the codes and structures of language for what they are-the only way to convey a fundamental inability to ever know "the thing itself." Making the leap to politics, Martel suggests that following Hobbes's argument, the sovereign can also be seen as idolatrous--a separated essence--a figure who supplants the people it purportedly represents, and that learning to be better readers enables us to challenge, if not defeat, the authority of the sovereign.
Images Of Anarchy
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Author : Ioannis D. Evrigenis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Images Of Anarchy written by Ioannis D. Evrigenis and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Political Science categories.
Hobbes's concept of the natural condition of mankind became an inescapable point of reference for subsequent political thought, shaping the theories of emulators and critics alike, and has had a profound impact on our understanding of human nature, anarchy, and international relations. Yet, despite Hobbes's insistence on precision, the state of nature is an elusive concept. Has it ever existed and, if so, for whom? Hobbes offered several answers to these questions, which taken together reveal a consistent strategy aimed at providing his readers with a possible, probable, and memorable account of the consequences of disobedience. This book examines the development of this powerful image throughout Hobbes's works, and traces its origins in his sources of inspiration. The resulting trajectory of the state of nature illuminates the ways in which Hobbes employed a rhetoric of science and a science of rhetoric in his relentless pursuit of peace.
Reason And Rhetoric In The Philosophy Of Hobbes
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Author : Quentin Skinner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-02-22
Reason And Rhetoric In The Philosophy Of Hobbes written by Quentin Skinner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-02-22 with History categories.
An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.
The Rhetorics Of Thomas Hobbes And Bernard Lamy
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Author : John T. Harwood
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2009-03-10
The Rhetorics Of Thomas Hobbes And Bernard Lamy written by John T. Harwood and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (1588–1677) and Bernard Lamy (1640–1715) Hobbes’ A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique, the first English translation of Aristotle’s rhetoric, reflects Hobbes’ sense of rhetoric as a central instrument of self-defense in an increasingly fractious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as “that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer,” the Briefe looks forward to Hobbes’ great political works De Cive and Leviathan. Published anonymously in France as De l’art de parler, Lamy’s rhetoric was translated immediately into English as The Art of Speaking. Lamy’s long association with the Port Royalists made his works especially attractive to English readers because Port Royalists were engaged in a vicious quarrel with the Jesuits during the last half of the 17th century.
From Humanism To Hobbes
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Author : Quentin Skinner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-25
From Humanism To Hobbes written by Quentin Skinner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with History categories.
Offers new insights into the works of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and especially Hobbes by focusing on their use of rhetoric.
Philosophy Rhetoric And Thomas Hobbes
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Author : Timothy Raylor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-01
Philosophy Rhetoric And Thomas Hobbes written by Timothy Raylor and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy (political science). The claim did not go uncontested and in recent years the relationship of philosophical reasoning to rhetorical persuasion in Hobbes's work has become a significant area of discussion, as scholars attempt to align his disparaging remarks about rhetoric with his dazzling practice of it in works like Leviathan. The dominant view is that, having rejected an early commitment to humanism and with it rhetoric when he adopted the 'scientific' approach to philosophy in the late 1630s, Hobbes later came to re-embrace it as an essential aid to or part of philosophy. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes proposes that Hobbes was, from first to last, dubious about the place of rhetoric in civil society, and came to see it as a pernicious presence within philosophy - a position from which he did not retreat. It offers a fresh and expanded picture of Hobbes's humanism by examining his years as a country house tutor; his teaching and his translation of Thucydides, the influence on him of Bacon, and the range of his early natural historical and philosophical interests. In demonstrating the distinctively Aristotelian character of his understanding of rhetoric, the book also revisits the new approach to philosophy Hobbes adopted at the end of the 1630s, clarifying the nature and scope of his concern about the contamination of philosophy and political life by the procedures of rhetorical argumentation.
Binding Words
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Author : Karen S. Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-21
Binding Words written by Karen S. Feldman and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-21 with Philosophy categories.
Conscience, as Binding Words convincingly argues, can only ever be understood, interpreted, and made effective through tropes and figures of language.
Behemoth Teaches Leviathan
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Author : Geoffrey M. Vaughan
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2007-03
Behemoth Teaches Leviathan written by Geoffrey M. Vaughan and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03 with Philosophy categories.
Did Hobbes's political philosophy have practical intentions? There exists no "Hobbist" school of thought; no new political order was inspired by Hobbesian precepts. Yet in Behemoth Teaches Leviathan Geoffrey M. Vaughan revisits Behemoth to reveal hitherto unexplored pedagogic purpose to Hobbes's political philosophy. The work demonstrates Hobbes's firm commitment to government and his attempts to create a system of political education to underpin his commitment to sovereignty. Vaughan explore Hobbes's political education in detail and in an epilogue considers the resurgence of political education in contemporary liberal theory. He discovers that contemporary political education has far more in common with Hobbes's system than it does with early liberalism.