A review by goosemixtapes
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Did not finish book.

read parts of this for a class & i am probably not going to read the rest of it. but it was... interesting? depressing? i don't know; it reminds me of machiavelli in that parts of it make sense, but i also can't imagine looking at the world this way all the time. less enjoyable than machiavelli, though, maybe because i read the prince in translation & this is straight-up seventeenth-century english.

(update: we are beating this man's ass in the classroom rn. professor said "anyone want to stand up for hobbes in this part?" and there were crickets. guy raised his hand and said "does he know society exists outside of western europe-" and the professor went "NO.")