Leviathan

Preface

The Text of Leviathan

Backgrounds

1. Hobbes’s Life
2. 1. Pierre Bayle, From the Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle
3. Hobbes’s Self-Defense
4. 1. From Considerations upon the Reputation, Loyalty and Manners of T. Hobbes
   2. From Six lessons for the Savilian Professors in Oxford
5. Reactions to Hobbes
6. 1. Sir Robert Filmer, From Observations Concerning the Originall of Government, Upon Mr Hobs Leviathan
   2. James Harrington, From The Prerogative of Popular Government
   3. Bishop Bramhall, From The Catching of Leviathan
   4. Edward Hyde, From A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State in . . . Leviathan
   5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, State-Sovereignty
   6. Montesquieu, Of the Laws of Nature
   7. Henry Sidgwick, Hobbes

Interpretations

1. Michael Oakeshoff, Introduction to Leviathan
2. Leo Strauss, From Natural Right and History
3. Johann P. Sommerville, [Hobbes on Political Obligation]
4. Richard Tuck, [Hobbes on Skepticism and Moral Conflict]
5. Jean Hampton, The Failure of Hobbes’s Social Contract Argument
6. David Johnston, Theory and Transformation: The Politics of Enlightenment
7. George Kateb, Hobbes and the Irrationality of Politics
8. Richard E. Flathman, Of Making and Unmaking

Selected Bibliography

Selected Glossary

Index of Authorities Cited in Leviathan