Sovereign Resistance to Reading in Hobbes's Leviathan.

This text explores the relationship between sovereignty and reading in Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. It argues that sovereignty both necessitates and rejects reading, excluding it in order to monopolize it. The text examines Hobbes's self-reading strategy and the tension between the need for language a...

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Publicado en:CR: The New Centennial Review Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 147 - 184
Autor principal: Bascuñán, Matías
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Michigan State University Press Fall2023
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