The Resource The Platonian Leviathan, Leon Harold Craig
The Platonian Leviathan, Leon Harold Craig
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- Extent
- xxi, 694 pages
- Contents
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- A Melvillian overture : Moby-dick and philosophy
- Part one, The problematical Leviathan : Kakaphonia
- A Conradian intermezzo : variations on the state of nature
- Part two, The platonic Leviathan : Harmonia
- A Melvillian coda : Moby-Dick as fourfold allegory
- Isbn
- 9781442641068
- Label
- The Platonian Leviathan
- Title
- The Platonian Leviathan
- Statement of responsibility
- Leon Harold Craig
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Annotation
- Cataloging source
- NLC
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- Craig, Leon Harold
- Dewey number
- 320.1
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- B1247
- LC item number
- .C69 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Hobbes, Thomas
- Political science
- Political science
- State, The
- Science politique
- Idées politiques
- État
- Summary expansion
- Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise, Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him with a mechanistic outlook towards human nature that established the basis of modern Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. In The Platonian Leviathan, Leon Harold Craig weaves together philosophy, political science, and literature to offer a radical re-interpretation of Hobbes's most famous work. Though Craig begins and concludes his analysis with discussions of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and includes an essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the bulk of his two-part commentary centres on Leviathan. Part One shows the overt principles of Hobbes's political prescription to be untenable, and strongly suggests that Hobbes himself did not subscribe to these rules, using them only as tools to further his philosophical goals. In Part Two, Craig displays the underlying Platonism of Hobbes's thinking. Sure to be controversial, The Platonian Leviathan may nonetheless re-orient the future direction of Hobbes scholarship
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- The Platonian Leviathan, Leon Harold Craig
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
- A Melvillian overture : Moby-dick and philosophy -- Part one, The problematical Leviathan : Kakaphonia -- A Conradian intermezzo : variations on the state of nature -- Part two, The platonic Leviathan : Harmonia -- A Melvillian coda : Moby-Dick as fourfold allegory
- Control code
- 445229913
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxi, 694 pages
- Isbn
- 9781442641068
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)445229913
- Label
- The Platonian Leviathan, Leon Harold Craig
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A Melvillian overture : Moby-dick and philosophy -- Part one, The problematical Leviathan : Kakaphonia -- A Conradian intermezzo : variations on the state of nature -- Part two, The platonic Leviathan : Harmonia -- A Melvillian coda : Moby-Dick as fourfold allegory
- Control code
- 445229913
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxi, 694 pages
- Isbn
- 9781442641068
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)445229913
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