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1756 pp.
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ISBN-13:
9780199602629

Publication date:
May 2012

Imprint: OUP UK

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

Edited by Dr. Noel Malcolm

Series : Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan is one of the most important philosophical texts in the English language, and one of the most influential works of political philosophy ever written. This is the first critical edition based on a full study of the manuscript and printing history. It is also the first edition to place the English text side by side with Hobbes's later Latin version of it, complete with a set of notes in which the many passages that differ in the Latin are translated into English. So, for the first time, readers of Leviathan will be able to see clearly every stage of the development of the text. Both texts are fully annotated with explanatory notes. The editor's Introduction, which takes up the whole of the first volume, gives a path-breaking account of the work's context, sources, and textual history. This definitive edition will set the study of Hobbes's masterwork on a new basis.

Readership : Scholars and advanced students of 17th-century intellectual history, history of political thought, or history of philosophy.

Reviews

Review from other book by this author: '[Malcolm's edition of the Hobbes Correspondence is] an important literary and philosophical event.'

--A. C. Grayling, Financial Times
'The range and depth of Dr Noel Malcolm's scholarship are beyond praise and almost beyond belief.'

--D. D. Raphael, Political Studies

Volume 1: Editorial Introduction
Preface
Abbreviations
A Note on Fates and References
General Intorduction
Chapter 1: The Writing of iLeviathanr
Chapter 2: Some Features of the English Leviathan
Chapter 3: From the English Leviathan to the Latin
Textual Introduction
Chapter 1: The English Leviathan
Chapter 2: The Latin Leviathan
Chapter 3: The Present Edition
Chapter 4: A Bibliographical Description of the Editions used in the Present Edition
List of Manuscripts
Bibliography
Index
Volume 2: The English and Latin Texts
Abbreviations and Conventions used in this Edition
Leviathan
Part 1
Part 2
Volume 3: The English and Latin Texts
Part 3
Part 4
A Review and Conclusion
Appendix
Index to the Latin Leviathan
Index of Biblical Citations
General Index

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Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and General Editor of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes. He has been a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Foreign Editor of The Spectator, and political columnist of the Daily Telegraph. He left journalism in 1995 in order to concentrate on scholarly research and writing. His books include short histories of Bosnia and Kosovo, and the Clarendon Edition of the correspondence of Thomas Hobbes. Since 1995 he has been a Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University, and Carlyle Lecturer at Oxford University. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.

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Special Features

A landmark edition.
Latin and English versions of the text presented in parallel.
Thorough annotation presenting the fruits of Malcolm's unrivalled expertise.
The introductory volume is the most detailed study ever written on how this classic work came into being.
The standard edition for the foreseeable future.
This will be the starting-point for all scholarly work on Leviathan.