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Author Boucher, David, 1951- author.

Title Appropriating Hobbes : legacies in political, legal, and international thought / David Boucher
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Contents Cover; Appropriating Hobbes: Legacies in Political, Legal, and International Thought; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: Appropriating Hobbes in Contexts; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH; THE AUTHOR AND DISTANCE; SITUATEDNESS OF THE INTERPRETER; VARIETIES OF INTERPRETATION; 1: Hobbes among the Philosophical Idealists: A Will that Is Actual, but Not General; INTRODUCTION; KANT, HEGEL, AND HOBBES; HOBBES, GREEN, RITCHIE, AND BOSANQUET; COLLINGWOOD, HOBBES, AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY BARBARISM; CONCLUSION; 2: Understanding Hobbes: Philosophy versus Ideology; INTRODUCTION
THE CASE FOR THE IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXTTHE CASE FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT; SKINNERâ#x80;#x99;S HOBBES; OAKESHOTT ON HOBBES; CONCLUSION; 3: Constraining Leviathan: Power versus Authority in Hobbes, Schmitt, and Oakeshott; INTRODUCTION; THE CRISIS OF CIVILIZATION AND THE CRITIQUE OF LIBERALISM; THE NECESSITY OF MYTH; HOBBES: A MISERABLE COMFORTER?; Schmittâ#x80;#x99;s Hobbes; Oakeshottâ#x80;#x99;s Hobbes; WHAT IS TO BE DONE?; Schmittâ#x80;#x99;s Solution; Oakeshottâ#x80;#x99;s Solution; CONCLUSION; 4: Hobbes among the Classic Jurists: Natural Law versus the Law of Nations; INTRODUCTION; THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
HISTORIES OF POLITICAL THOUGHT AND HISTORIES OF INTERNATIONAL THOUGHTHistories of International Thought; Putative Histories of Political Thought; Hobbes and Classic Jurisprudence; INTERNATIONAL JURISTS; THE PERSON OF THE STATE AND THE LAW OF NATIONS; CONCLUSION; 5: Hobbes among the Legal Positivists: Sovereign or Society?; INTRODUCTION; THE COMMON LAW AND CUSTOMARY LAW; INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMARY LAW; THE COMMON GOOD; INTERNATIONAL LAW; NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEGAL POSITIVISM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW; Positivist International Law; INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY AND CUSTOMARY LAW; Equity and Natural Law
FROM SOVEREIGNTY TO COMMUNITYCONCLUSION; 6: Hobbes among International Relations Thinkers: International Political Theory; INTRODUCTION; RELATIONS AMONG STATES; INTERPRETERS OF HOBBESâ#x80;#x99;S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY; THE PHILOSOPHICAL STATE OF NATURE; HISTORICAL STATE OF NATURE; RELATIONS AMONG COMMONWEALTHS; CONCLUSION; Conclusion; Index
Summary This book explores how Hobbes's political philosophy has occupied a pertinent place in different contexts, and how his interpreters see their own images reflected in him, or how they define themselves in contrast to him. Appropriating Hobbes argues that there is no Hobbes independent of the interpretations that arise from his appropriation in these various contexts and which serve to present him to the world. There is no one perfect context that enables us to get at what Hobbes 'really meant', despite the numerous claims to the contrary. He is almost indistinguishable from the context in which he is read
"This book explores how Hobbes's political philosophy has occupied a pertinent place in different contexts, and how his interpreters see their own images reflected in him, or how they define themselves in contrast to him. Appropriating Hobbes argues that there is no Hobbes independent of the interpretations that arise from his appropriation in these various contexts and which serve to present him to the world. There is no one perfect context that enables us to get at what Hobbes 'really meant', despite the numerous claims to the contrary. He is almost indistinguishable from the context in which he is read. This contention is justified with reference to hermeneutics, and particularly the theories of Gadamer, Koselleck, and Ricoeur, contending that through a process of 'distanciation' Hobbes's writings have been appropriated and commandeered to do service in divergent contexts such as philosophical idealism; debates over the philosophical versus historical understanding of texts; as well as in ideological disputations, and emblematic characterisations of him by various disciplines such as law, politics, and international relations. This volume illustrates the capacity of a text to take on the colouration of its surroundings by exploring and explicating the importance of contexts in reading and understanding how and why particular interpretations of Hobbes have emerged, such as those of Carl Schmitt and Michael Oakeshott, or the international jurists of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 20, 2018)
Subject Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
SUBJECT Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 fast
Subject Political science -- Philosophy -- Research
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192549266
019254926X
9780191858741
0191858749