The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Best known today for his important influence on political philosophy, Hobbes was in fact a wide and deep thinker on a diverse range of issues. The chapters included in this Oxford Handbook cover the full range of Hobbes's thought--his philosophy of logic and language; his view of physics and scientific method; his ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law; and his views of religion, history, and literature. Several of the chapters overlap in fruitful ways, so that the reader can see the richness and depth of Hobbes's thought from a variety of perspectives. The contributors are experts on Hobbes from many countries, whose home disciplines include philosophy, political science, history, and literature. A substantial introduction places Hobbes's work, and contemporary scholarship on Hobbes, in a broad context.

About the Author
A. P. Martinich is Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor in Philosophy, and Professor of History and Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Two Gods of Leviathan (1992), Hobbes: A Biography (1999), and Hobbes (2005), and co-editor with David Sosa of The Philosophy of Language 6th edition (OUP, 2013). Kinch Hoekstra is Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Law and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy and of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in the history of political philosophy. With Luca Iori, he is editing Hobbes's Thucydides, Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre, for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes.

Reviews
This handbook... has much to offer... This book would be an essential companion for any serious student of Hobbes. * Paul Hammond, The Seventeenth Century *
This book represents a significant contribution to scholarship on Hobbes. It is impressive in both breadth and depth, with twenty-six essays devoted to various aspects of Hobbes's thought...Overall, the essays are of high quality and the group of authors, composed of historians of philosophy, political theorists, and historians of ideas, among others, is representative of the best of contemporary scholarship on Hobbes...The book sets the standard for future work on Hobbes. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *



Book Information
ISBN 9780190095338
Author A.P. Martinich
Format Paperback
Page Count 664
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1050g
Dimensions(mm) 245mm * 169mm * 33mm