| Description |
1 online resource (xviii unnumbered pages, 286 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in the history of political thought,
1873-6548 ;
v. 2
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Studies in the history of political thought ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index. |
| Contents |
Introductory Note; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Editions; Introduction; 1. Aesthetic Representation; 2. Dramatic Representation; 3. Juridical Representation; 4. Representation in Theology; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Commentators have traditionally constructed Hobbes's thinking on representation too narrowly, as a self-contained area of his political theory. This book challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, which owes less to Hobbesa (TM)s thought than to contemporary preconceptions of what counts as political thinking. In her powerful and original analysis, MA3nica Brito Vieira mines neglected strands of Hobbes's theory of representation, and reinstates it in a much wider pattern of Hobbesa (TM)s theorizing about human thought and action in relation to widely varied images, roles and fictions. Th. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 -- Political and social views.
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Political and social views. |
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State, The.
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State, The. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brito Vieira, Mónica. Elements of representation in Hobbes. Leiden ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2009 9789004181748 (DLC) 2009039906 (OCoLC)444113856 |
| ISBN |
9789004181779 (electronic book) |
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9004181776 (electronic book) |
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1282952315 |
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9781282952317 |
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9789004181748 |
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9004181741 |
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