Description |
1 online resource ([xviii], 286 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Studies in the history of political thought, 1873-6548 ; v. 2 |
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Studies in the history of political thought ; v. 2.
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Contents |
Introductory Note; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Editions; Introduction; 1. Aesthetic Representation; 2. Dramatic Representation; 3. Juridical Representation; 4. Representation in Theology; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 -- Political and social views
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SUBJECT |
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 fast |
Subject |
State, The.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Political and social views
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State, The
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9789004181779 |
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9004181776 |
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1282952315 |
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9781282952317 |
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