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Leviathan
- Author
- Thomas Hobbes
- Narrator
- Philip Stevens
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 25 February 2021
- Run Time
- 25 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Philip Stevens. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Brooke.
Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma of these events led to his great masterpiece of political thought. How could humankind rescue itself from life in the natural state, which was 'poor, nasty, brutish and short'? What form of politics would provide the security that he and his contemporaries craved?
Vilified and scorned from the moment it was published, Leviathan was publicly burnt for sedition, but ever since it has exercised a unique fascination upon its readers, both for its ideas and its remarkable prose. Its concepts helped to drag Europe into a new world - one in which we still live today.
© Christopher Brooke 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Details
- Author
- Thomas Hobbes
- Narrator
- Philip Stevens
- Duration
- 25 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 February 2021
- ISBN
- 9780141997858
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Social theory, Political structure and processes, Social and ethical issues, Ethics and moral philosophy
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Philip Stevens. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Brooke.Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma of these events led to his great masterpiece of political thought. How could humankind rescue itself from life in the natural state, which was 'poor, nasty, brutish and short'? What form of politics would provide the security that he and his contemporaries craved? Vilified and scorned from the moment it was published, Leviathan was publicly burnt for sedition, but ever since it has exercised a unique fascination upon its readers, both for its ideas and its remarkable prose. Its concepts helped to drag Europe into a new world - one in which we still live today.© Christopher Brooke 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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