The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan

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Introduction Patricia Springborg 1. Of Man 1.1 Hobbes's visual strategy Horst Bredekamp 1.2 The beast of myth: Medusa, Dionysus and the riddle of Hobbes's sovereign monster John Tralau 1.3 Sense and nonsense about sense: Hobbes and the Aristotelians on sense perception and imagination Cees Leijenhorst 1.4 Hobbes on the natural condition of mankind Kinch Hoekstra 1.5 Hobbes's moral philosophy Tom Sorrell 2. Of Commonwealth 2.1. Hobbes on persons, authors, and representatives Quentin Skinner 2.2 Hobbes on glory and civil strife Gabriella Slomp 2.3 Hobbes and the philosophical origins of liberalism Lucien Jaume 2.4 The basis for the right to punish in Hobbes's Leviathan Dieter Huning 3. Of a Christian Commonwealth 3.1 Hobbes's covenant theology and its political implications Franck Lessay 3.2 Omnipotence, necessity, and sovereignty: Hobbes and the absolute powers of God and king Luc Foisneau 3.3 Hobbes on salvation Roberto Farneti 3.4 Hobbes and the cause of religious toleration Edwin Curley 4. Of the Kingdom of Darkness 4.1 Hobbes's critique of the doctrine of essences and its sources Gianni Paganini 4.2 Leviathan and its Anglican context Johann Somerville 4.3 The Bible and Protestantism in Leviathan A. P. Martinich 4.4 The 1668 appendix and Hobbes's theological project George Wright 5. Hobbes's Reception 5.1 Leviathan and Hobbes's contemporaries G. A. J. Rogers 5.2 The reception of Hobbes's Leviathan Jonathan Parkin 5.3 Hobbes, Clarendon, and Leviathan Perez Zagorin 5.4 Silencing Thomas Hobbes: the Presbyterians and Leviathan Jeffrey R. Collins.