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New translation of the first major work of the greatest English political philosopher.

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The origins of natural rights theories in medieval Europe and their development in the seventeent...

Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and...

This book is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of int...

One individual¿s contribution to a large collective project¿such as voting in a national election...

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New translation of the first major work of the greatest English political philosopher.

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Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of bein...

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Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the En...