What is the Leviathan?
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The aim of this article is to explore some of what Hobbes says in Leviathan about what the Leviathan is. I propose that Hobbes is not finally clear on this score. Nonetheless, such indeterminacy might be revealing, insofar as it points us in different directions regarding how the state can be conceptualized, and what it is thought able to do. The paper is thus deliberately open ended: it does not aim to definitively settle interpretative issues, but rather to use Hobbes as a way of thinking about the differing potentials of state theory.
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What is the Leviathan?
In: Hobbes StudiesSearch for other papers by Paul Sagar in
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The aim of this article is to explore some of what Hobbes says in Leviathan about what the Leviathan is. I propose that Hobbes is not finally clear on this score. Nonetheless, such indeterminacy might be revealing, insofar as it points us in different directions regarding how the state can be conceptualized, and what it is thought able to do. The paper is thus deliberately open ended: it does not aim to definitively settle interpretative issues, but rather to use Hobbes as a way of thinking about the differing potentials of state theory.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 1570 | 498 | 35 |
| Full Text Views | 461 | 42 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 420 | 88 | 3 |