Hobbes's Body Politics

From Life to Accountability in Leviathan

AvMeghan Robison

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Cycles

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Reconstructing the conceptual link between life and accountability, Meghan Robison presents a new account of political founding and obligation in Hobbes. Beginning from an interpretation of life as an idiosyncratic bodily motion – a motion of limbs that begins within a living body – she shows how the Commonwealth is instituted through our self‑legislated embodied practices of holding ourselves to mutually beneficial shared rules.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cycles
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399537216

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Meghan Robison is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montclair State University. Her work focuses on early modern political thought, with particular attention to Thomas Hobbes. She examines how philosophical understandings of living embodiment shape the ways human beings establish relations of authority, obligation, and accountability in political and domestic domains. She has published articles in Scienza & Politica, Arendt Studies, Hypatia, and Hobbes Studies, and has contributed a chapter to The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy (2025).

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction. Who’s Afraid of Thomas Hobbes?Chapter 1. Homo Artificialis: Art, Life and the Body Politic in the Introduction to LeviathanChapter 2. Voluntary Motion: Self-directed LifeChapter 3. Desire: Self-expressive LifeChapter 4. The Power to ProsperChapter 5. The Natural Condition of MankindChapter 6. Making Covenants of PeaceChapter 7. Authorizing PersonsNotesBibliography