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Author : David Johnston
Release : 2020-10-06
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Leviathan by : David Johnston
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Leviathan written by David Johnston. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, will be forthcoming.
Author : Raia Prokhovnik
Release : 2019-07-31
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes' Leviathan by : Raia Prokhovnik
Download or read book Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes' Leviathan written by Raia Prokhovnik. This book was released on 2019-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1991. This book explicitly examines rhetoric as the art of persuasion in the practical world, and as in the expression of thinking in the language a speaker uses. It presents Leviathan in terms of the philosophical character of the work considered through Hobbes’ use of language to express and organise his thought. Throughout, the nature of the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy is discussed and the problems of language in philosophical understanding. The book is concerned with Hobbes’ political philosophy and his views on figurative language, interest in literary theory and particularly his allegory. A special feature is the chapter on engraved title pages in Leviathan and other texts of the era.
Author : James R. Martel
Release : 2007
Genre : Political science
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Book Synopsis Subverting the Leviathan by : James R. Martel
Download or read book Subverting the Leviathan written by James R. Martel. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader. Martel demonstrates that Hobbes's radical method of reading not only undermines his own authority in the text, but, by extension, the authority of the sovereign as well. To make his point, Martel looks closely at Hobbes's understanding of religious and rhetorical representation. In Leviathan, idolatry is not just a matter of worshipping images but also a consequence of bad reading. Hobbes speaks of the "error of separated essences," in which a sign takes precedence over the idea or object it represents, and warns that when the sign is given such agency, it becomes a disembodied fantasy leading to a "kingdom of darkness." To combat such idolatry, Hobbes offers a method of reading in which one resists the rhetorical manipulation of figures and tropes and recognizes the codes and structures of language for what they are-the only way to convey a fundamental inability to ever know "the thing itself." Making the leap to politics, Martel suggests that following Hobbes's argument, the sovereign can also be seen as idolatrous--a separated essence--a figure who supplants the people it purportedly represents, and that learning to be better readers enables us to challenge, if not defeat, the authority of the sovereign.
Author : Raia Prokhovnik
Release : 1981
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Book Synopsis Rhetoric and philosophy in Hobbes' "Leviathan". by : Raia Prokhovnik
Download or read book Rhetoric and philosophy in Hobbes' "Leviathan". written by Raia Prokhovnik. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Quentin Skinner
Release : 2018-01-25
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis From Humanism to Hobbes by : Quentin Skinner
Download or read book From Humanism to Hobbes written by Quentin Skinner. This book was released on 2018-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli's The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare's plays, notably Coriolanus. The second half of the book examines the humanist background to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. A major new essay discusses his typically humanist preoccupation with the visual presentation of his political ideas, while other chapters explore the rhetorical sources of his theory of persons and personation, thereby offering new insights into his views about citizenship, political representation, rights and obligations and the concept of the state.
