Aspects of Hobbes [Paperback]

These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of the world's leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not only succinct introductions to Hobbes's life and thought, but also path-breaking studies of many different aspects of his political philosophy, his scientific and religious theories, his relations with his contemporaries, the sources of his ideas, the printing history of his works, and his influence on European thought.

Preface
1. A Summary Biography of Hobbes
2. Hobbes and Spinoza
3. Hobbes, Sandys, and the Virginia Company
4. Robert Payne, the Hobbes Manuscripts, and the 'Short Tract'
5. Hobbes's Science of Politics and his Theory of Science
6. Hobbes and Roberval
7. The Titlepage ofLeviathan, Seen in a Curious Perspective
8. Charles Cotton, Translator of Hobbes'sDe cive
9. Pierre de Cardonnel (1614-1667): Merchant, Printer, Poet, and Reader of Hobbes
10. Hobbes and the Royal Society
11. The Printing of the Bear: New Light on the Second Edition of Hobbes'Leviathan
12. Hobbes, Ezra and the Bible: The History of a Subversive Idea
13. Hobbes's Theory of International Relations
14. Hobbes and the European Republic of Letters
List of Manuscripts
Bibliography
Index

It requires unusual breadth of scholarship to study and illuminate these various and interconnecting dimensions of Hobbes's life and works, but Malcolm is a scholar's scholar. ...Aspects of Hobbesis an unassuming title for what is no less than a landmark in Hobbes studies. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the world of Hobbes. --Renaissance Quarterly