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ISBN 10: 1442641061 
ISBN 13: 9781442641068
Author: Leon Harold Craig

Thomas Hobbes’s influential political treatise, Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him with a mechanistic outlook towards human nature that established the basis of modern Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. In The Platonian Leviathan, Leon Harold Craig weaves together philosophy, political science, and literature to offer a radical re-interpretation of Hobbes’s most famous work.

Though Craig begins and concludes his analysis with discussions of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and includes an essay on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the bulk of his two-part commentary centres on Leviathan. Part One shows the overt principles of Hobbes’s political prescription to be untenable, and strongly suggests that Hobbes himself did not subscribe to these rules, using them only as tools to further his philosophical goals. In Part Two, Craig displays the underlying Platonism of Hobbes’s thinking. Sure to be controversial, The Platonian Leviathan may nonetheless re-orient the future direction of Hobbes scholarship.

The Platonian Leviathan 1st Table of contents:

A Melvillian Overture: Moby-Dick and Philosophy
Part One: The Problematical Leviathan: Kακoϕoνíα
1: Curiosity about Causes and the Problem of Religion
2: Reality and the Problem of Materialism
3: The Aristotelian Analysis of Cause
4: The Human Psyche and the Problem of Chance
5: The Causes of a Commonwealth
6: Nature and the Problem of Teleology
7: The Essentials of Baconian Science
8: The Baconian Character of Hobbes’s Political Project
9: Philosophy and the Problem of Determinism
10: Reason and the Problem of Revelation
11: Rationality and the Problem of Reason
12: Science and the Problem of Language
13: Honour and the Problem of Natural Law
14: Nobility and the Problem of Hedonism
15: Justice and the Problem of Regimes
16: Equity and the Problem of Egoism
A Conradian Intermezzo: Variations on the State of Nature
Part Two: The Platonic Leviathan: ‘Armoni´a
17: The Crucial Paragraph: Platonic Intimations
18: The Heartless Introduction: Hobbes’s Disposable Physiology
19: The Original State of Nature: Hobbes’s Palaeoanthropology
20: The Ever-Present State of Nature: Greeks versus Barbarians
21: The Nature of Men: Equality as a Useful Lie
22: The Place of Philosophy: The Kingship of Hobbes
23: A Colossus of Irony: The Latent Platonism of Leviathan

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