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Author Brito Vieira, Mónica

Title The elements of representation in Hobbes : aesthetics, theatre, law, and theology in the construction of Hobbes's theory of the state / by Mónica Brito Vieira
Published Leiden ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource ([xviii], 286 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in the history of political thought, 1873-6548 ; v. 2
Studies in the history of political thought ; v. 2.
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
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Subject Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 -- Criticism and interpretation
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 fast
Subject State, The.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Political and social views
State, The
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004181779
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9781282952317