Ideals as interests in Hobbes's Leviathan : the power of mind over matter
S. A. Lloyd proposes a radically new interpretation of Hobbes's Leviathan that shows transcendent interests - interests that override the fear of death - to be crucial to both Hobbes's analysis of social disorder and his proposed remedy to it.
410 pages ; 23 cm
9780521522328, 0521522323
49594257
Acknowledgments; A note on references; Introduction; 1. The standard philosophical interpretation; 2. Hobbes's compositive reconstruction, phase one: identification of the principle of political obligation; 3. Compositive reconstruction, phase two: religion and the redescription of transcendent interests; 4. Hobbes's mechanism for the reproduction of social stability; 5. Hobbes's resolutive analysis, phase two: part 4 of Leviathan; 6. Theory in practice: Leviathan and Behemoth; 7. Hobbes's resolutive analysis, phase one: design and detail; 8. The treatment of transcendent interests; 9. Hobbes's absolutism; Notes; Index.
Originally published: 1992