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  1. The elements of representation in Hobbes
    aesthetics, theatre, law, and theology in the construction of Hobbes's theory of the state
    Author: Brito Vieira, Mónica
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Commentators have traditionally constructed Hobbes's thinking on representation too narrowly, as a self-contained area of his political theory. This book challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, which owes less to Hobbesa (TM)s thought than... more

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    Commentators have traditionally constructed Hobbes's thinking on representation too narrowly, as a self-contained area of his political theory. This book challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, which owes less to Hobbesa (TM)s thought than to contemporary preconceptions of what counts as political thinking. In her powerful and original analysis, MA3nica Brito Vieira mines neglected strands of Hobbes's theory of representation, and reinstates it in a much wider pattern of Hobbesa (TM)s theorizing about human thought and action in relation to widely varied images, roles and fictions. Th.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004181779; 9004181776; 1282952315; 9781282952317
    RVK Categories: CF 4517 ; MC 4753
    Series: Studies in the history of political thought ; v. 2
    Subjects: Repräsentation <Politik>; Welttheater; Politische Ästhetik; Gesellschaftsordnung; Staatslehre; Repräsentation <Philosophie>
    Other subjects: Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679); Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679): Leviathan
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource ([xviii], 286 pages), Illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index