Download or read book Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt written by Johan Tralau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hobbes, the English 17th century philosopher, and Carl Schmitt, Hitler’s ‘crown jurist’, a political thinker and author of an enigmatic book on Hobbes, are increasingly relevant today for two reasons. First, they address the problem of political order, so important when we witness failed states, the privatisation of war, and the rise of political violence that does not derive from the state. Secondly, they are both crucial sources for the use of mythology in politics; moreover, they address the key issue of our time, namely, the relation between politics and religion. This collection of important new essays addresses Hobbes and Schmitt as political thinkers, their importance for present-day politics and society, their conceptions of myth and politics, and Schmitt’s use of Hobbes in (and some say against) the Third Reich. When myth, violence and revelation re-emerge as political forces, it is important to understand Hobbes’s and Schmitt’s answers to the problems of their time – and to those of ours. This book was based on a special issue of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Download or read book Selected papers on Renaissance philosophy and on Thomas Hobbes written by Karl Schuhmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Selected papers on Renaissance philosophy and on Thomas Hobbes offers the best work in these fields by the acclaimed historian of philosophy, Karl Schuhmann (1941-2003), displaying the extraordinary range and depth of his unique scholarship, -Topics covered include Renaissance philosophy of nature; the development of the notion of time in early modern philosophy; Telesio's concept of space; Hermetic influences on Pico, Patrizi and Hobbes; Hobbes's Short Tract; Spinoza and Hobbes; Hobbes's political philosophy, -This book brings together, in chronological arrangement, twelve papers. Though these were published before in some form, several were not easily accessible so far, -All articles have been edited in accordance with the author's wishes, and incorporate his later additions and corrections

Download or read book Thomas Hobbes written by Otfried Höffe and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his contributions to political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes set out to develop a coherent philosophical system extending from logic and natural philosophy to civil and religious philosophy. In this introduction to Hobbes's thought, Otfried Höffe begins by providing an overview of the entire scope of his work, making clear its systematic character through analysis of his natural philosophy, his individual and social anthropology, and his political thought. He then offers an innovative examination of religious and ecclesiastical questions, touching not only on the political implications of religion so important to Hobbes, but also on his attempt to reconstruct Christianity in terms of a materialistic philosophy. He also explores Hobbes's continuous critique of Aristotle and Aristotelian Scholastics, in which Höffe argues that Hobbes and Aristotle have much more in common philosophically than is normally supposed—and certainly more than Hobbes himself acknowledged. Finally, Höffe sketches the influence Hobbes had and continues to have on the development of legal and political philosophy.

Download or read book Thomas Hobbes written by Preston T. King and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together the rich periodical literature on one of the greatest English philosophers. These definitive essays range across Hobbes' work in ethics, metaphysics, law, politics, history, science and religion.

Download or read book Die politische Philosophie Thomas Hobbes written by Matti Ostrowski and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Homo homini lupus“ – Der Mensch ist des Menschen ein Wolf. Mit diesem Zitat reduzierte Thomas Hobbes Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts den Menschen auf ein Wesen, das sich ohne eingreifende Gewalt (selbst-)zerstörerisch gegenüber seinen Mitmenschen verhält. Er schloss damit an das bereits knapp 100 Jahre vor ihm entwickelte negative Menschenbild Niccolo Macchiavellis an, der diesem von Grund auf misstraute, da dieser selbst gegenüber seinem eigenen Wohltäter undankbar sei. Auf dieser Anthropologie aufbauend entwickelte Thomes Hobbes seinerzeit in seinen politischen Schriften die politisch-philosophische Lehre vom Naturzustand, in dem eben jenes Zitat in vollster Ausprägung zutreffen würde. Dieser Zustand, so Hobbes, könne nur über den rationalistisch begründeten Abschluss eines Gesellschaftsvertrages aller Individuen untereinander und der Übertragung der Macht an eine übergeordnete Instanz – den Staat – überwunden werden. Doch wie genau sollte ein idealer Staat aufgebaut sein? Hobbes selbst hatte einen vom Gesellschaftsvertrag ausgenommenen absoluten Monarchen vorgeschlagen, was nicht nur die Frage aufkommen ließ, wie dieser sich dann noch legitimieren ließe, sondern auch, warum Thomas Hobbes zu den ersten Aufklärern zählen darf. Im Zentrum der folgenden Arbeit soll daher im ersten Teil zunächst die politische Theorie Thomas Hobbes ́ stehen. Es soll mit Hilfe seiner philosophischen Überzeugungen dargestellt werden, wie der Naturzustand zu verstehen ist und welche praktischen Konsequenzen sich für ihn aus diesem Konstrukt ergeben, beispielsweise die strikte Ablehnung demokratischer Staatsformen und die Einrichtung einer – später „absolutistisch“ genannten – Monarchie. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird dann vor allem die Rezeption und Wirkung Thomas Hobbes besprochen. Dabei soll geklärt werden, ob und inwieweit Hobbes trotz seiner heute anachronistisch wirkenden politischer Überzeugung zu den frühen Aufklärern zählt. Denn während bereits Zeitgenossen aller Couleur seine Lehre größtenteils ablehnten, zeigte sich spätestens im 18. Jahrhundert das zweite Gesicht des Denkers und dessen bleibender Einfluss. Ob gewollt oder ungewollt hat er späteren Philosophen und Staatstheoretikern nämlich Instrumente in die Hand gegeben, mit deren Hilfe die politischen Ideen der Aufklärung legitimiert werden konnten.

Download or read book Sovereignty and Liberty written by Amnon Lev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attitude we take to power is almost invariably one of distrust, never more so than when it claims to be sovereign. And yet, we have always been drawn to sovereignty. Out of fear or fascination, we accepted that it was a condition of our liberty; that to assert ourselves as free, we would have to work not against but through sovereign power. This book retraces the history of the implication of sovereignty and liberty, an implication that has shaped the way we live together, as individuals and as political beings. Shedding new light on the work of key political and constitutional thinkers, including Marsilius of Padua, Hobbes, Hegel, Kelsen, and Schmitt, it identifies the conceptual operations that created sovereignty and shows how subjection to an absolute and undivided power came to be a source of meaning. At the heart of the analysis is the idea that sovereignty made reference to and relied upon a form of faith which aligned man’s political existence on law. Offering new and often controversial insights into the grounds of our attachment to sovereign power and into the crisis that is currently affecting its institutions, this book will appeal to students and scholars of law, politics, history of philosophy, and the social sciences.

Download or read book Crisis and Critique Philosophical Analysis and Current Events written by Anne Siegetsleitner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary deep-reaching changes – whether in financial or real economy, in Europe’s political conditions, in the context of scientific theories, in the field of global (environmental) security, or gender relations – are also a challenge to philosophy. The volume comprises cutting-edge scholarly articles from renowned philosophers with various geographical backgrounds and from different philosophical strands. Next to investigating general questions as to the relation of philosophy and critique (What is philosophical critique and which philosophical concepts of critique are of importance today? Where do we need it most? Where are its limits?), the articles focus on issues like theories of democracy and modes of election; the roles of emotions in the political realm; challenges from a widespread discontent in society to politics and science; changes to social identities and different theoretical approaches to social identity formation. The book is indispensable for all who are interested in what contemporary philosophy has to say on crucial issues of our time.

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Eighteenth century Philosophy written by Knud Haakonssen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.

Download or read book Hobbes Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Toleration in Conflict written by Rainer Forst and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.

Download or read book Transforming Topoi written by Andrew James Johnston and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionen leben von der Dialektik der Wiederholung, die das Gleiche stets anders inszeniert. Sie speisen sich aus den Erinnerungen; an der Grenze von bedacht und selbstverständlich getan lassen sie sich nur als selbstverständliche Überzeugungen bestimmen. Aber wie ist es dennoch möglich, Traditionen zu beeinflussen? Der vorliegende Band widmet sich der Frage, wie man mit Traditionen Symbolpolitik machen kann. Was sind die Zumutungen der Traditionen, wenn sie politisch instrumentalisiert werden? Gibt es Grenzen der Manipulation, die im Wesen der jeweiligen Traditionen liegen und sie folglich definieren? Die BeiträgerInnen geben eine Vielzahl von Antworten, indem sie sich Topoi aus Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive widmen. Traditions thrive on the dialectic of repetition. Drawing their topoi from the well of memory, they are situated on the very border between the deliberate and the habitual. Yet how is it possible to influence traditions? The present collection of essays studies the ways in which traditions are employed in the service of symbolic politics. What are the burdens and impositions of traditions, when their topoi are consciously exploited in the service of ideological purposes? Are there certain limits to manipulation that lie in the very nature of the traditions in question, a nature which therefore defines them? The contributors give a host of answers, studying topoi in medieval and early modern Europe from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Download or read book Hobbes on Politics and Religion written by Laurens van Apeldoorn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hobbes is one of the most important figures in the history of political philosophy. Yet a great deal of his political thought was motivated by the need to address distinctively religious problems. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the complex and rich intersections between Hobbes's political and religious thought.

Download or read book Interpretations of Peace in History and Culture written by W. Dietrich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume in the trilogy 'Many Peaces' on transrational peace and elicitive conflict transformation. It proposes an innovative analysis of peace interpretations in global history and contemporary cultures of peace, the so-called five families of energetic, moral, modern, post-modern, and transrational.

Download or read book Kant s Metaphysics of Morals written by Mark Timmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant's last major works on ethics, The Metaphysics of Morals has become a focus of recent scholarship. This volume draws together a selection of the most interesting current work by leading scholars.

Download or read book Directory of European political scientists written by European Consortium for Political Research, University of Essex. Compiled and ed. by the Central Services of the ECPR and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Leviathan written by Horst Bredekamp and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horst Bredekamp’s subject is the astute deployment and perennial resonance of the startling image of the body politic that dominates the frontispiece to Leviathan: a treatise on the psychology of the individual and the dynamic of the multitude, published in 1651 by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Affirming the centrality of such a figural device for this pioneering theorist of the state, Bredekamp goes on to address the art-historical dimension of the mesmerising etched title-page. In his central chapters he explores the extraordinary range of sources – from socio-cultural tradition to scientific advances – on which the author and his artist-collaborator may have drawn. In conclusion, he reveals Hobbes to be no less passionate than shrewd in his belief that the constraints and amenities of a tolerable life in common attest to the potency of the visual. As appendices, two essays and catalogues explore the portraits made of Hobbes as well as illustrations that appeared in his other works, thus systematically completing the exploration of the images connected with this exceptional philosopher.

Download or read book The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt written by Montserrat Herrero and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Schmitt is a key figure in modern political thought, but discussion of his work often focuses upon specific elements or themes within his texts. This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of Carl Schmitt’s discourse and provides a new perspective on his contribution, presenting the idea of Nomos of the Earth as the key idea that organizes his political and legal discourse This book creates a ‘reverse genealogy’ of Schmitt’s theoretical system, starting from his legal and political concept of nomos so as to reconstruct his understanding of order. It connects the different topics the Carl Schmitt developed along his intellectual trajectory, which have generally been approached in separate ways by scholars: the legal theory, the concept of the political, the theory of international relations and political theology. The text considers the whole of Carl Schmitt’s work including writings that have been previously unknown to the English speaking academy; old journals with just three or four pages, newspaper articles, manuscripts of conferences, and Festschrifts.Itprovides a balanced examination of the whole complex of Carl Schmitt’s political discourse.