Historical Dictionary of Hobbes's Philosophy

The series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements has been going since the mid‐1990s. It now includes more than 100 titles, from Taoism and Utopianism to Feminist Philosophy and Native American Movements. For readers and librarians interested above all in mainstream philosophy, on offer are Kierkegaard and Descartes, Wittgenstein and Kant, Leibniz and Nietzsche, Hume and Hegel, Heidegger and Russell. Recent volumes include Jesus, Metaphysics, Shinto, Hinduism (a new edition, as some of them are), Calvinism, and Hobbes. Thomas Hobbes (1588‐1679) is seen today as an important analytical and political philosopher, and he is known as the author of...