Hobbes on Politics and Religion
ISBN: 9780198803409
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Philosophy History of Philosophy Political Philosophy;

Thomas Hobbes is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of political philosophy. Yet a great deal of his political thought was motivated by the need to address problems of a distinctively religious nature. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the complex and rich intersections between Hobbes's political and religious thought. The volume contains fifteen originally commissioned essays by leading Hobbes scholars, all ofwhich open up new directions for thinking about the relationship between politics and religion in Hobbes. This volume will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of Hobbes, in particular, andto those interested in the place of religion in the history of modern political thought more generally.

Laurens van Apeldoorn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Centre for Political Philosophy at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Toronto, the University of Montreal, King's College London, and the University of Leuven. His research has appeared in journals including Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, History of European Ideas, and Hobbes Studies. Robin Douglass is Senior Lecturerin Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy, King's College London. Before arriving at King's, he studied at the Universities of York and Exeter. His research focuses on seventeenth- andeighteenth- century political philosophy. He is the author of Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will, and the Passions (2015) and has recently published articles in journals including the American Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought, European Journal of Political Theory, and The Review of Politics.

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