Mortal Gods: Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas Hobbes
Miller, Ted H.
| Publication Date |
2011 |
| Publisher |
Penn State University Press |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Very good copy |
| SKU |
19136 |
| Notes |
Very clean and neat. |
Description
Paperback. 338pp. According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from humanism to the scientific study of politics. In Mortal Gods, Ted Miller radically revises this view, arguing that Hobbes never ceased to be a humanist. Miller’s work is a fundamental recasting of Hobbes’s project, a recontextualization of his thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and the court culture of the Stuart regimes.
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