Hobbes (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: A. P. Martinich
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Biography, philosophy, and history
- Time of Work: 1588-1679
- Setting: England and France
- Principal Characters: Thomas Hobbes
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Biography
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Philosophy or philosophers, France or French people, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Political science, Sixteenth century
- Locales: France, England
Aloysius P. Martinich, who holds an endowed chair in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, is an internationally recognized authority on the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. His previous works include The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics (1992) and A Hobbes Dictionary (1995). Martinich is best known for having pointed out the importance of religion in the thinking of Hobbes, who has sometimes been seen as a purely secular or even antireligious theorist. In Hobbes: A Biography, Martinich provides a complete and most readable...
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