Hobbes and history /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=79921 |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Common abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Hobbes and history; Hobbes's concept of history; When Hobbes needed history; Hobbes and historiography: Why the future, he says, does not exist; Hobbes, history and wisdom; Hobbes's uses of the history of philosophy; Hobbesian histories; Hobbes and Tacitus; The peace of silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War; Hobbes's Behemoth; Hobbes and sacred history; Hobbes, Selden, Erastianism, and the history of the Jews; Index.