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The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes
Jeffrey R. Collins
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Description for The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes
hardcover. Offers an interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's response to the English Revolution. By focusing of his religious thought, this work debunks the view of him as a royalist, and recovers his sympathies with the religious projects of the 1640s and 1650s. It culminates with an exploration of Hobbes's sympathies with Oliver Cromwell and his supporters. Num Pages: 325 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLH; HPC; HRAX; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 617. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's evolving response to the English Revolution. It rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent, if idiosyncratic, royalist, and vindicates the contemporaneous view that the publication of Leviathan marked Hobbes's accommodation with England's revolutionary regime. In sustaining these conclusions, Professor Collins foregrounds the religious features of Hobbes's writings, and maintains a contextual focus on the broader religious dynamics of the English Revolution itself. Hobbes and the Revolution are both placed within the tumultuous historical process that saw the emerging English state coercively secure jurisdictional control over national ... Read more
The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's evolving response to the English Revolution. It rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent, if idiosyncratic, royalist, and vindicates the contemporaneous view that the publication of Leviathan marked Hobbes's accommodation with England's revolutionary regime. In sustaining these conclusions, Professor Collins foregrounds the religious features of Hobbes's writings, and maintains a contextual focus on the broader religious dynamics of the English Revolution itself. Hobbes and the Revolution are both placed within the tumultuous historical process that saw the emerging English state coercively secure jurisdictional control over national ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
325
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199268474
SKU
KSK0000422
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Ref
99-1
About Jeffrey R. Collins
Jeffrey R. Collins is an Assistant Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1999 and served, for three years, as a Harper Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. He has published articles in Historical Journal, History, and Church History.
Reviews for The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes studies have rarely been stronger. Dr Collins is properly respectful of the contribution made in recent years by three scholars of distinction, Quentin Skinner, Noel Malcolm and Richard Tuck. But Collins is his own man and has made, in his first book, a contribution to rival theirs.
William Lamont, English Historical Review
It is Collins' achievement to ... Read more
William Lamont, English Historical Review
It is Collins' achievement to ... Read more