"That Giant Monster Call'd a Multitude": A Precursor to Leviathan's Figurative Invocation.
Scholarship on Leviathan has not fully explored the distinctive pattern of language that Hobbes used to invoke the central conceit of the treatise--"that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH." This note highlights an earlier instance of that rare linguistic construction, one that presented a simila...
| Publicado en: | Hobbes Studies Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 223 - 236 |
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