Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

736 pages first pub 1651 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy medium-paced
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From the turmoil of the English Civil War, when life was truly 'nasty, brutish, and short', Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) speaks directly to the twentieth century. In its over-riding concern for peace, its systematic analysis of power and its elevatio...

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