GABRIELLA SLOMP is Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Government at the University of Strathclyde. A specialist in Modern Political Thought, she is regarded as an emerging Hobbesian scholar of the first rank and her work has been published in top journals (Political Studies, History of Political Thought, Canadian Journal of Political Science).

'This may well be the most impressive new book on Hobbes appearing over the past two decades or more.' - Political Studies

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations to Hobbes's Works Quoted in the Text Introduction: The Political Geometry of Glory PART I: ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL GEOMETRY The Coordinates of Man: Time and Space Fatal Equality The Axiom of Glory Glory: Parallels and Intersections Ambition: Paradoxes and Puzzles The Dilemma of Fear and Hope The Trajectory of Glory Glory and the Excellent Sex The Determinants of the Citizen: Nature and Nurture PART II: THEOREMS OF POLITICAL GEOMETRY The Rational Actor at Play Hobbes's Impossibility Theorem The Ideology of Political Geometry End Notes Selected Bibliography Name Index

GABRIELLA SLOMP is Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Government at the University of Strathclyde. A specialist in Modern Political Thought, she is regarded as an emerging Hobbesian scholar of the first rank and her work has been published in top journals (Political Studies, History of Political Thought, Canadian Journal of Political Science).

'This may well be the most impressive new book on Hobbes appearing over the past two decades or more.' - Political Studies

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations to Hobbes's Works Quoted in the Text Introduction: The Political Geometry of Glory PART I: ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL GEOMETRY The Coordinates of Man: Time and Space Fatal Equality The Axiom of Glory Glory: Parallels and Intersections Ambition: Paradoxes and Puzzles The Dilemma of Fear and Hope The Trajectory of Glory Glory and the Excellent Sex The Determinants of the Citizen: Nature and Nurture PART II: THEOREMS OF POLITICAL GEOMETRY The Rational Actor at Play Hobbes's Impossibility Theorem The Ideology of Political Geometry End Notes Selected Bibliography Name Index

GABRIELLA SLOMP is Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Government at the University of Strathclyde. A specialist in Modern Political Thought, she is regarded as an emerging Hobbesian scholar of the first rank and her work has been published in top journals (Political Studies, History of Political Thought, Canadian Journal of Political Science).

'This may well be the most impressive new book on Hobbes appearing over the past two decades or more.' - Political Studies

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations to Hobbes's Works Quoted in the Text Introduction: The Political Geometry of Glory PART I: ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL GEOMETRY The Coordinates of Man: Time and Space Fatal Equality The Axiom of Glory Glory: Parallels and Intersections Ambition: Paradoxes and Puzzles The Dilemma of Fear and Hope The Trajectory of Glory Glory and the Excellent Sex The Determinants of the Citizen: Nature and Nurture PART II: THEOREMS OF POLITICAL GEOMETRY The Rational Actor at Play Hobbes's Impossibility Theorem The Ideology of Political Geometry End Notes Selected Bibliography Name Index