The allegiance of Thomas Hobbes [Elektronisk resurs] / Jeffrey R. Collins.

• This book 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, this book 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 religion and the corporate church. Seen in the light of this history, Hobbes emerges as a theorist who moved with, rather than against, the revolutionary currents of his age. The strongest claim of the book is that Hobbes was motivated by his deep detestation of clerical power to break with the Stuart cause and to justify the religious policies of England's post-regicidal masters, including Oliver Cromwell. 

Ämnesord

Allegiance.  (LCSH)

Political science  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

Statsvetenskap  -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1600-talet (sao)

Great Britain  -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660. (LCSH)

1642-1660 (Puritanska revolutionen, Storbritannien)  (sao)

Personnamn

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Dbz Särskilda filosofer

Be-e.42 Allmän idé- och lärdomshistoria: Brittiska öarna (Storbritannien): Stuarttiden 1603-1714

Dbz Särskilda filosofer

Be-e.42 Allmän idé- och lärdomshistoria: Brittiska öarna (Storbritannien): Stuarttiden 1603-1714

Klassifikation

320.01 (DDC)

Dbz Hobbes, Thomas/DR (kssb/8)

Be-e.42/DR (kssb/8)

Dbz Hobbes, Thomas (kssb/8)

Be-e.42 (kssb/8)