Hobbes in Dialogue
Historical and Philosophic Insights into Political Thought
Hobbes in Dialogue
Historical and Philosophic Insights into Political Thought
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Description
Bringing together expert contributors in a range of disciplines from the UK, the USA and Europe, Hobbes in Dialogue shines a much-needed light on the political and philosophical dialogues of Thomas Hobbes.
The book is divided into three major parts that address earlier dialogues, which shaped the background to Hobbes's own, Hobbes's dialogues themselves and the wider context of his philosophy in relation to the dialogue form, and lastly two later dialogues that criticised Hobbes.
The various chapters explore how the dialogue form allowed Hobbes, as one of the eminent thinkers who shaped early modern political thought, to present his political philosophy in a different guise. How do his dialogues tally with his other often more systematic works? Do they complement his earlier writings? Does he expect the readers of his dialogues to know about his key positions and arguments as notably developed in De Cive and Leviathan? These are some of the leading questions Hobbes in Dialogue considers in a collection that reveals much about Hobbes's thinking and the intellectual history of Europe in the early modern age more broadly.
Table of Contents
Part 1 - The Tradition of Dialogues and Possible Influences on Hobbes
1. Thucydides and the Melian Dialogue Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley, USA)
2. New Wine in Old Bottles: Guicciardini's Dialogue on the Government of Florence (ca. 1521-1524) Stefano Saracino (University of Jena, Germany)
3. Omnium saeculorum philosophus maximus: Galileo received by Hobbes Cornel Zwierlein (Bochum University, Germany)
4. The Danger of a Parliament? The use and abuse of Sir Walter Raleigh's Dialogue in early seventeenth-century Britain Jason Peacey (University College London, UK)
5. Dialogue in 1st Book of Thomas Mores' Utopia Angus Gowland (University College London, UK)
6. Jean Bodin, Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime Colloquium Heptaplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis Catherine Power (York University, Canada)
7. Bacon's Dialogues, especially the Advertisement Touching an... and The New Atlantis Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (University College London, UK)
Part 2 - Hobbes's Dialogues
8. Hidden Dialogues? Hobbes's dialogue with his readers in Hobbes's political philosophy Eva Odzuck (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
9. Dialogus Physicus and Examinatio & emendatio mathematicæ hodiernæ Raffaella Santi (University of Florence, Italy)
10. De Symbolo Niceno (Latin Leviathan 1st of three dialogues in appendix) Jerónimo Rilla (EHESS, France)
11. De Haeresi (Latin Leviathan 2nd of three dialogues in appendix) Eric Marquer (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France)
12. De quibusdam objectionibus contra Leviathan (Latin Leviathan 3rd of three dialogues in appendix) Jon Parkin (University of Oxford, UK)
13. Reformed Ethics and the Bramhall Debate: Hobbes's Questions concerning liberty, necessity, and chance and the reformed textbook tradition Noah Dauber (Colgate University, USA)
14. Behemoth Jeffrey Collins (Queen's University, Canada)
15. Saint Germain, The Doctor and Student, or, dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student in the laws of England and Hobbes's Dialogue on the Common Law Peter Schröder (University College London, UK)
Part 3 - Dialogues Against Hobbes
16. Eachard, Mr Hobbs's [sic] State of Nature Considered in a Dialogue Between Philantus and Timothy and Eachard, Some Opinions of Mr Hobbs considered in a Second Dialogue Luc Foisneau (CNRS, France)
17. Tenison, The Creed of Mr. Hobbes examined in a feigned Conference between him and a Student in Divinity Alexandra Chadwik (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Index
Product details
| Published | Oct 29 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350527850 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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