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Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics
Samantha Frost
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Description for Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics
Paperback. This book provides a penetrating and original reconstruction of Hobbes's materialist accounts of self-consciousness, cognition, and agency and shows how such an account of subjectivity demands that we pursue peace in our ethical and political lives. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 322.
Thomas Hobbes is an iconic figure who serves as an easy reference for pundits commenting on the brutality of war as well as for critics of a distinctly modern individualism in which calculating and rapacious self-interest is the cause of the violence, destruction, and exploitation endemic to the contemporary world. Frost's reading of Hobbes's philosophy shows us that underlying such visions of self and politics is another iconic figure: that of the Cartesian subject. What gives the iconic Hobbes his hardcore individualism and its corollary accounts of instrumentalism, conflict, and absolutism is a Cartesian rendering of the self as split ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804757485
SKU
V9780804757485
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About Samantha Frost
Samantha Frost is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Gender and Women's Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Reviews for Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics
"[Frost] is an exquisitely careful and attentive reader and she demonstrates a Talmudic reverence for Hobbes' texts, one that allows her to read his books as if the last three hundred and fifty odd years of heavy interpretive authority had never happened. This is a singular accomplishment and because of it, Frost has written one of the most important books ... Read more