Hobbes on the State | Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS on Acast
Hobbes on the State | Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS on Acast
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) reimagined how we could do politics. It redefined many of the ideas that continue to shape modern politics: representation, sovereignty, the state. But in Leviathan these ideas have a strange and puzzling power. David explores what Hobbes was trying to achieve and …