Sovereignty As a Vocation in Hobbes's Leviathan : New Foundations, Statecraft, and Virtue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoye, Matthew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty.

Virtue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Sovereignty As a Vocation in Hobbes's Leviathan

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Summary:

J. Matthew Hoye's 'Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes’s Leviathan' explores the foundational aspects of sovereignty within Thomas Hobbes's political philosophy. The book argues that Hobbes's conception of sovereignty is deeply intertwined with virtue ethics, focusing on the character and virtues of the sovereign rather than the ruled. It examines Hobbes's response to the political challenges of his time, such as the civil wars and the regicide of Charles I, and how these shaped his views on statecraft and natural justice. The book provides a distinctive analysis of Hobbes’s emphasis on the essential virtues of sovereigns and their role in maintaining order and justice. Aimed at scholars of political philosophy, it challenges conventional interpretations by highlighting the importance of sovereign virtue in Hobbes's work. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Outline and major arguments

Style and referencing

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

2. Leviathan against the Borough Corporation

Introduction

Althusius and the politics of the city

English urban republicanism

Cities in Elements

Leviathan against the borough corporation

Debating democracy in Hobbes

Conclusion

Postscript: The democratic deficit and the puzzle of new foundations in Leviathan

3. Rhetorical Action and Constitutive Politics

Political foundations

Philosophical cloisters

Roman reconfigurations

Reformation and Renaissance rhetoric

Theatrum Rhetoricum

Constitutive rhetoric, enacted and exceptional

Conclusions

4. Rhetorical Action in Leviathan

Rhetoric in the Hobbes scholarship Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

1-04-084130-9

1-04-084378-6

1-003-70410-7

9781003704102

OCLC:

1409197203