The founding text of modern political philosophy
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Modernized English text
The text of Leviathan is presented in its complete English original, established from the 1651 editio princeps (London: Andrew Crooke) and fully modernized in spelling and punctuation for the contemporary reader, while preserving the rhythm and philosophical vocabulary of Hobbes. Controversial passages have been checked against the revised Latin edition of 1668. Biblical citations follow the King James Version, as Hobbes used them.
Editor's introduction
A substantial critical introduction by Marize Schons situating Leviathan as the inaugural text of modern political philosophy, reconstructing the historical context of the English Civil War and the regicide, examining the controversial reception of the work, and offering a detailed analysis of the visual rhetoric of the frontispiece
Marginal glosses
Hobbes's own marginal glosses have been preserved as running headings corresponding to their original locations, guiding the reader through the dense succession of definitions, distinctions, and demonstrations without breaking the flow of the prose.
Editorial notes and Index
Footnotes identifying scriptural and classical citations, glossing archaic vocabulary, recording substantive divergences from the 1668 Latin, and supplying scholarly context where the argument depends on a debate or figure outside the modern reader's range. A complete index covers proper names, biblical references, classical sources, and principal terms of art.
The Vita carmine expressa in bilingual edition
The edition includes Hobbes's autobiographical poem in Latin elegiac couplets, composed in 1672–73 in the manner of Ovid's Epistula ad Posteritatem, presented alongside the anonymous English verse translation of 1680 (Life of Mr. Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, London, 1680).
Hardcover binding
Durable, premium hardcover with a ribbon marker, designed for a lifetime on your shelf, and an additional thematic bookmark.
Logos Reader included
Includes a special issue of the Logos Reader dedicated to Hobbes's philosophical system, the doctrine of sovereignty, and the foundations of modern political thought.
Leviathan
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