Book · 1651 · Nonfiction

Leviathan

Name: Leviathan
Author: Thomas Hobbes

Penguin Books, Limited (Penguin Random House) · 688 pages

★ 8.2 editorial score

Strip away the state, Hobbes argues, and life becomes a war of everyone against everyone, nasty, brutish, and short. The remedy is to hand all our power to one sovereign.

Genre

Political philosophy Political Philosophy

Subject

The state Social contract Politics Human nature

Time

1651Depicts Scientific Revolution

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