Books by Jeffrey R. Collins
“Collins sets Leviathan within not just the intellectual context, but also within the larger social and political context as well. It’s really a tremendous magisterial example of historical scholarship that he’s engaged in. Collins’s argument is that Hobbes, in Leviathan, comes out as both an extreme Erastian but also endorses Independency, which is what was being defended by the Cromwellian revolutionaries. In a sense, what he’s arguing is that Hobbes, with the publishing of Leviathan, comes out in favour of Cromwell and the regicides. He abandons his royalist allegiance—that’s why it’s called The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes—and he throws in his lot with the Cromwellians.” Read more...
Arash Abizadeh, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Jeffrey R. Collins were recommended
The Best Thomas Hobbes Books, recommended by Arash Abizadeh
Thomas Hobbes’s master work Leviathan, in which he argued for the need to unite under a powerful sovereign as part of a ‘social contract’, has become a cornerstone of Western political philosophy. Here, the philosopher and political scientist Arash Abizadeh selects five of the best books for understanding Hobbes’s arguments in their historical context.
