The Sleeping Subject: On the Use and Abuse of Imagination in Hobbes's Leviathan.
This paper offers a novel interpretation of the political implications of Hobbes's theory of imagination and his solution to the threat posed by the imagination to political stability. While recent work has correctly identified the problem the imagination poses for Hobbes, it has underestimated the...
| Publicado en: | Hobbes Studies Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 153 - 176 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2020
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