Leviathan

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Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign - or 'Levia than' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was published. But his penetrating work of political philosophy - now fully revised and with a new introduction for this edition - opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world. Edited with a new introduction by Christopher Brooke Format: PaperbackPublished: in UK in 2017Publisher: Penguin ClassicsPages: 576Language: EnglishISBN 13: 9780141395098ISBN 10: 0141395095 Show more