Patricia Springborg
Biographic Data
| ID | 384853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Springborg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Springborg |
| SIGNATURE | SPRINGBORG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5280-4906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Raylor’s revisionist humanist Hobbes. Patricia Springborg review essay of Timothy Raylor, Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes
In Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes, Timothy Raylor, points to anomalies in what has become the received wisdom about Thomas Hobbes’s understanding of the relation between philosophy and rhetoric. Quentin Skinner, whose Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (1996) is canonical, in From Humanism to Hobbes (2018, 1–2), restates his basic assumption, that ‘by “humanism” and “the humanities”, I am simply referring to a specifi…
Constitutionalism and antiquity transformation
Straumann presents a grand narrative: Roman constitutionalism in the West from the age of Cicero to the American Founding Fathers. His project is forensic, mounting a case framed in terms of a dichotomy between the Greek ethical and political tradition of Plato and Aristotle which emphasizes civic virtue (Pocock's classical republicanism), and the Roman-law based constitutionalism of Cicero (Skinner's version). But this is too easy. Cicero was he…
Thomas Hobbes and the Political Economy of Peace
Thomas Hobbes's theory of war is currently being re-examined as part of a re-examination of realism in international relations theory which claims to be Hobbes-based.I am not alone in maintaining that Hobbes was first and foremost a peace theorist, rejecting the usual grounds for war, pretexts based on just war, infringements on property or trade, and thus trespass.But those who examine the three-fold causes of war that Hobbes gives, as "competit…
Hobbes, civil law, liberty and the Elements of Law
When he gave his first political work the title The Elements of Law Natural and Politic, Hobbes signalled an agenda to revise and incorporate continental Roman and Natural Law traditions for use in Great Britain, and from first to last he remained faithful to this agenda, which it took his entire corpus to complete. The success of his project is registered in the impact Hobbes had upon the continental legal system in turn, specific aspects of his…
Astell: Political Writings
Hobbes’s Fool the Insipiens, and the Tyrant-King
Hobbes in Leviathan, chapter xv, 4, makes the startling claim: “The fool hath said in his heart, ‘there is no such thing as justice,’” paraphrasing Psalm 52:1: “The fool hath said in his heart there is no God.” These are charges of which Hobbes himself could stand accused. His parable of the fool is about the exchange of obedience for protection, the backslider, regime change, and the tyrant; but given that Hobbes was himself likely an oath-break…
Hobbes's Fool the Stultus, Grotius, and the Epicurean Tradition
Among the paradoxical aspects of Hobbes's scepticism attention has recently turned to Hobbes's fool of Leviathan , chapter xv, where Hobbes makes a claim about justice that paraphrases Psalm 52:1: "The fool hath said in his heart there is no God." It is a charge of which Hobbes himself could be suspected, but in fact we see that it is on this startling claim that his legal positivism rests. Moreover it is embedded in a theory of natural law that …
Hobbes and Schmitt on the name and nature of Leviathan revisited
Hobbes's Leviathan transformed forever the meaning of the term, long debated by Biblical commentators. Alternatively, in the Book of Job chapter 41, a great chthonic beast, or Lucifer‐like ‘King of all the Children of Pride’, Leviathan for Hobbes was a figure for the modern state. Recent work by Quentin Skinner and Noel Malcolm treats Leviathan as in part a story about representation. But by juxtaposing the thesis of Carl Schmitt, juridical archi…
The Paradoxical Hobbes: A Critical Response to the Hobbes Symposium, Political Theory, Vol. 36, 2008
Attention has turned from Hobbes the systematic thinker to his inconsistencies, as the essays in the Hobbes symposium published in the recent volume of Political Theory suggest. Deborah Baumgold, in “The Difficulties of Hobbes Interpretation,” shifted the focus to “the history of the book,” and Hobbes’s method of serial composition and peripatetic insertion, as a major source of his inconsistency. Accepting Baumgold’s method, the author argues th…
Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from Domination
Philosopher, theologian, educational theorist, feminist and political pamphleteer, Mary Astell was an important figure in the history of ideas of the early modern period. Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus, she is best known for the famous question which prefaces her Reflections on Marriage: 'If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?' She is claimed by modern Republican theorists and feminis…
Classical Modeling and the Circulation of Concepts in Early Modern Britain
cosmopolitanism and empireIf global identity may be seen to represent the cosmopolitanism of large aggregates or of empire, it also represents the class from which particularity is drawn.For empire lurked in the wings of the nation state from its very inception.As those small spaces carved out of the great garment of Christendom, the early modern European nation states not only emulated empires rather than city-states (hence Rome and not Greece),…
Algunas premisas de la historia de los conceptos (Begriffsgeschichte). Modernidad y conciencia histórica
Reinhart Koselleck, pionero de la Begriffsgeschichte, ha puesto de relieve en los últimos años que la conciencia histórica moderna es particularmente reflexiva. También los análisis del discurso realizados por la escuela francesa (Foucault, Derrida, Leotard) y los trabajos de los historiadores contextuales de Cambridge (John Pocock, Quentin Skinner y sus seguidores) han incidido en la misma disrección. A partir de las afirmaciones realizadas en d…
Classical translation and political surrocacy
Republicanism, Freedom from Domination, and the Cambridge Contextual Historians
Philip Pettit, in Republicanism: a Theory of Freedom and Government (1997), draws on the historiography of classical republicanism developed by the Cambridge Contextual Historians, John Pocock and Quentin Skinner, to set up a programme for the recovery of the Roman Republican notion of freedom, as freedom from domination. But it is my purpose to show that classical republicanism, as a theory of institutional complexity and balanced government, co…
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate politic…
Hobbes and Cluverius
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Hobbes's Biblical Beasts: Leviathan and Behemoth
Beyond the actual works of nature a poet may now go; but beyond the conceived possibility of nature, never. I can allow a Geographer to make in the Sea, a Fish or a Ship, which by the scale of his map would be two or three hundred mile long, and think it done for ornament, because it is done without the precincts of his undertaking; but when he paints an Elephant so, I presently apprehend it as ignorance and a plain confession of Terra incognita.…
Mary Astell (1666-1731), Critic of Locke
In the now considerable literature reevaluating the reception of Locke'sTwo Treatises, no mention has been made of perhaps his first systematic critic, the commissioned Tory political pamphleteer, Mary Astell. Contemporaneous with Charles Leslie, who is usually credited with the honor, Astell had diagnosed Locke's political argument by 1705 and perhaps as early as 1700. Why has her contribution remained unacknowledged for so long? It is argued he…
Royal Persons: Patriarchal Monarchy and the Feminine Principle
Queen, goddesses and birth of state monarchy as a social form unification of Two Kingdoms gods and people divine images gemination or twinning kings, crowns, dances, fans and sphinxes protective arms, the good shepherd and aetiology of Ka birth symbols, baskets, boxes and the beautiful woman Hathor, Hatshepsut and House of Morning Osirid theogony and beneficent king Ptolemaic queens, Greek daimon, Roman emperor and his genius saviour and benefact…
Homo Oeconomicus and Homo Politicus: Monarchy and Republicanism
Hobbes, Heresy, and the Historia Ecclesiastica
L'A. etudie la position religieuse de Hobbes et il vise a montrer son importance capitale, a tel point que les chapitres du «Leviathan» sur le christianisme et l'histoire de l'Eglise sont a ses yeux necessaires a la comprehension des conceptions politiques. Il retrace par ailleurs le detail des difficultes que Hobbes a endurees avec les pouvoirs religieux et sa defense contre l'accusation d'heresie
Pandora and Hatshepsut: Ancient Archtypes in the iconography of kingship
Greek myths contain iconographic material relating to the legitimacy, power and succession problems of early kingship. They may even represent the relics of kingly liturgies recited at coronations and New Year festivals. This essay analyses Hesiod's Pandora, her presentation and regalia, as an icon of queenly power reflecting the important power of women in the Egyptian royal cult and the great exponent of that role, Queen Hatshepsut. Pandora's v…
His Majesty is a Baby: A Critical Response to Peter Hammond Schwartz
The Primacy of the Political: Rahe and the Myth of the Polis
Paul Rahe belongs to the long tradition of mythologizing the polis, otherwise known as ‘the classical republican tradition’, which has two signal achievements to its credit. The first is to claim for the great landed monarchies of Europe the democratic legacy of the polis as their very own. The second is to distance themselves from eastern regimes by characterizing them as ‘despotic’ and ‘other’. This tradition is seriously challenged by modern c…
Early history of the state — West and east
Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, vol. 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp.549. UK £12.95 (paper). John A. Hall, Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West, London, Penguin Books, 1986, pp.272. $14.95 (paper)
The Primacy of the Political: Rahe and the Myth of the Polis
Paul Rahe belongs to the long tradition of mythologizing the polis, otherwise known as ‘the classical republican tradition’, which has two signal achievements to its credit. The first is to claim for the great landed monarchies of Europe the democratic legacy of the polis as their very own. The second is to distance themselves from eastern regimes by characterizing them as ‘despotic’ and ‘other’. This tradition is seriously challenged by modern c…
Mary Astell (1666-1731), Critic of Locke
In the now considerable literature reevaluating the reception of Locke'sTwo Treatises, no mention has been made of perhaps his first systematic critic, the commissioned Tory political pamphleteer, Mary Astell. Contemporaneous with Charles Leslie, who is usually credited with the honor, Astell had diagnosed Locke's political argument by 1705 and perhaps as early as 1700. Why has her contribution remained unacknowledged for so long? It is argued he…
Politics, Primordialism, and Orientalism: Marx, Aristotle, and the Myth of The Gemeinschaft
Nineteenth-century evolutionary historical schemas formulated in Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft, or status to contract terms, which underpin theories of modernization and development in the contemporary social sciences, are now called into serious question. Recent archaeological discoveries show ancient society to have been preeminently contractual; and anthropological studies of family, clan, and tribe reveal them to be more than primordial relics in…
Hobbes's Biblical Beasts: Leviathan and Behemoth
Beyond the actual works of nature a poet may now go; but beyond the conceived possibility of nature, never. I can allow a Geographer to make in the Sea, a Fish or a Ship, which by the scale of his map would be two or three hundred mile long, and think it done for ornament, because it is done without the precincts of his undertaking; but when he paints an Elephant so, I presently apprehend it as ignorance and a plain confession of Terra incognita.…
Royal Persons: Patriarchal Monarchy and the Feminine Principle
Queen, goddesses and birth of state monarchy as a social form unification of Two Kingdoms gods and people divine images gemination or twinning kings, crowns, dances, fans and sphinxes protective arms, the good shepherd and aetiology of Ka birth symbols, baskets, boxes and the beautiful woman Hathor, Hatshepsut and House of Morning Osirid theogony and beneficent king Ptolemaic queens, Greek daimon, Roman emperor and his genius saviour and benefact…
Leviathan, the Christian Commonwealth Incorporated
Republicanism, Freedom from Domination, and the Cambridge Contextual Historians
Philip Pettit, in Republicanism: a Theory of Freedom and Government (1997), draws on the historiography of classical republicanism developed by the Cambridge Contextual Historians, John Pocock and Quentin Skinner, to set up a programme for the recovery of the Roman Republican notion of freedom, as freedom from domination. But it is my purpose to show that classical republicanism, as a theory of institutional complexity and balanced government, co…
Karl Marx on Democracy, Participation, Voting, and Equality
HHE CONCEPT OF democracy raises perennial divisions among its advocates and critics that may be characterized in the following way. Defendants see it as a complex of principles and procedures designed to realize certain values-those of liberty, equality, fraternity, justicesuch that it constitutes a uniquely favored species of political praxis. Critics of democracy, in sharp contrast, tend to see it as nothing more than a set of techniques design…
Leviathan and the Problem of Ecclesiastical Authority
HE RELATION OF HOBBES' theological doctrines set out in the third and fourth books of Leviathan to his political argument on the nature of authority is still a somewhat neglected subject.' It is frequently assumed either that Hobbes' religious views were idiosyncratic and of strictly antiquarian interest or that his personal religious beliefs were minimal and the arguments in the third and fourth books were a sop to contemporaries who took such m…
Thomas Hobbes and the Political Economy of Peace
Thomas Hobbes's theory of war is currently being re-examined as part of a re-examination of realism in international relations theory which claims to be Hobbes-based.I am not alone in maintaining that Hobbes was first and foremost a peace theorist, rejecting the usual grounds for war, pretexts based on just war, infringements on property or trade, and thus trespass.But those who examine the three-fold causes of war that Hobbes gives, as "competit…
Hobbes, civil law, liberty and the Elements of Law
When he gave his first political work the title The Elements of Law Natural and Politic, Hobbes signalled an agenda to revise and incorporate continental Roman and Natural Law traditions for use in Great Britain, and from first to last he remained faithful to this agenda, which it took his entire corpus to complete. The success of his project is registered in the impact Hobbes had upon the continental legal system in turn, specific aspects of his…
The Paradoxical Hobbes: A Critical Response to the Hobbes Symposium, Political Theory, Vol. 36, 2008
Attention has turned from Hobbes the systematic thinker to his inconsistencies, as the essays in the Hobbes symposium published in the recent volume of Political Theory suggest. Deborah Baumgold, in “The Difficulties of Hobbes Interpretation,” shifted the focus to “the history of the book,” and Hobbes’s method of serial composition and peripatetic insertion, as a major source of his inconsistency. Accepting Baumgold’s method, the author argues th…
Hobbes, Heresy, and the Historia Ecclesiastica
L'A. etudie la position religieuse de Hobbes et il vise a montrer son importance capitale, a tel point que les chapitres du «Leviathan» sur le christianisme et l'histoire de l'Eglise sont a ses yeux necessaires a la comprehension des conceptions politiques. Il retrace par ailleurs le detail des difficultes que Hobbes a endurees avec les pouvoirs religieux et sa defense contre l'accusation d'heresie
Phenomenology and the social sciences
Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, edited with an introduction by Quentin Lauer, N.Y., Harper Torchbooks, 1965, pp. 192. Australian distributor, Book and Film Services. $A2.90, paper. Edmund Husserl. Experience and Judgement, Investigations in a Geneology of Logic, revised and edited by Ludwig Landgrebe, translated with an introduction by James S. Churchill, London, Rout-ledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. xxvii + 443. Austra…
Hobbes’s Fool the Insipiens, and the Tyrant-King
Hobbes in Leviathan, chapter xv, 4, makes the startling claim: “The fool hath said in his heart, ‘there is no such thing as justice,’” paraphrasing Psalm 52:1: “The fool hath said in his heart there is no God.” These are charges of which Hobbes himself could stand accused. His parable of the fool is about the exchange of obedience for protection, the backslider, regime change, and the tyrant; but given that Hobbes was himself likely an oath-break…
Constitutionalism and antiquity transformation
Straumann presents a grand narrative: Roman constitutionalism in the West from the age of Cicero to the American Founding Fathers. His project is forensic, mounting a case framed in terms of a dichotomy between the Greek ethical and political tradition of Plato and Aristotle which emphasizes civic virtue (Pocock's classical republicanism), and the Roman-law based constitutionalism of Cicero (Skinner's version). But this is too easy. Cicero was he…
Hobbes and Schmitt on the name and nature of Leviathan revisited
Hobbes's Leviathan transformed forever the meaning of the term, long debated by Biblical commentators. Alternatively, in the Book of Job chapter 41, a great chthonic beast, or Lucifer‐like ‘King of all the Children of Pride’, Leviathan for Hobbes was a figure for the modern state. Recent work by Quentin Skinner and Noel Malcolm treats Leviathan as in part a story about representation. But by juxtaposing the thesis of Carl Schmitt, juridical archi…
Hobbes and Cluverius
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Homo Oeconomicus and Homo Politicus: Monarchy and Republicanism
His Majesty is a Baby: A Critical Response to Peter Hammond Schwartz
Early history of the state — West and east
Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, vol. 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp.549. UK £12.95 (paper). John A. Hall, Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West, London, Penguin Books, 1986, pp.272. $14.95 (paper)
Leviathan and the Problem of Ecclesiastical Authority
HE RELATION OF HOBBES' theological doctrines set out in the third and fourth books of Leviathan to his political argument on the nature of authority is still a somewhat neglected subject.' It is frequently assumed either that Hobbes' religious views were idiosyncratic and of strictly antiquarian interest or that his personal religious beliefs were minimal and the arguments in the third and fourth books were a sop to contemporaries who took such m…
Phenomenology and the social sciences
Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, edited with an introduction by Quentin Lauer, N.Y., Harper Torchbooks, 1965, pp. 192. Australian distributor, Book and Film Services. $A2.90, paper. Edmund Husserl. Experience and Judgement, Investigations in a Geneology of Logic, revised and edited by Ludwig Landgrebe, translated with an introduction by James S. Churchill, London, Rout-ledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. xxvii + 443. Austra…
Leviathan, the Christian Commonwealth Incorporated
Human Needs: A Contribution to the Current Debate
Katrin Lederer, ed., Human Needs: A Contribution to the Current Debate. Boston: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain; Königstein: Verlag Anton Hain Meisenheim GmbH., 1980
Tradition
Karl Marx on Democracy, Participation, Voting, and Equality
HHE CONCEPT OF democracy raises perennial divisions among its advocates and critics that may be characterized in the following way. Defendants see it as a complex of principles and procedures designed to realize certain values-those of liberty, equality, fraternity, justicesuch that it constitutes a uniquely favored species of political praxis. Critics of democracy, in sharp contrast, tend to see it as nothing more than a set of techniques design…
Democracy: Method or Praxis
Politics, Primordialism, and Orientalism: Marx, Aristotle, and the Myth of The Gemeinschaft
Nineteenth-century evolutionary historical schemas formulated in Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft, or status to contract terms, which underpin theories of modernization and development in the contemporary social sciences, are now called into serious question. Recent archaeological discoveries show ancient society to have been preeminently contractual; and anthropological studies of family, clan, and tribe reveal them to be more than primordial relics in…
Early history of the state — West and east
Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, vol. 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp.549. UK £12.95 (paper). John A. Hall, Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West, London, Penguin Books, 1986, pp.272. $14.95 (paper)
His Majesty is a Baby: A Critical Response to Peter Hammond Schwartz
The Primacy of the Political: Rahe and the Myth of the Polis
Paul Rahe belongs to the long tradition of mythologizing the polis, otherwise known as ‘the classical republican tradition’, which has two signal achievements to its credit. The first is to claim for the great landed monarchies of Europe the democratic legacy of the polis as their very own. The second is to distance themselves from eastern regimes by characterizing them as ‘despotic’ and ‘other’. This tradition is seriously challenged by modern c…
Pandora and Hatshepsut: Ancient Archtypes in the iconography of kingship
Greek myths contain iconographic material relating to the legitimacy, power and succession problems of early kingship. They may even represent the relics of kingly liturgies recited at coronations and New Year festivals. This essay analyses Hesiod's Pandora, her presentation and regalia, as an icon of queenly power reflecting the important power of women in the Egyptian royal cult and the great exponent of that role, Queen Hatshepsut. Pandora's v…
Royal Persons: Patriarchal Monarchy and the Feminine Principle
Queen, goddesses and birth of state monarchy as a social form unification of Two Kingdoms gods and people divine images gemination or twinning kings, crowns, dances, fans and sphinxes protective arms, the good shepherd and aetiology of Ka birth symbols, baskets, boxes and the beautiful woman Hathor, Hatshepsut and House of Morning Osirid theogony and beneficent king Ptolemaic queens, Greek daimon, Roman emperor and his genius saviour and benefact…
Homo Oeconomicus and Homo Politicus: Monarchy and Republicanism
Hobbes, Heresy, and the Historia Ecclesiastica
L'A. etudie la position religieuse de Hobbes et il vise a montrer son importance capitale, a tel point que les chapitres du «Leviathan» sur le christianisme et l'histoire de l'Eglise sont a ses yeux necessaires a la comprehension des conceptions politiques. Il retrace par ailleurs le detail des difficultes que Hobbes a endurees avec les pouvoirs religieux et sa defense contre l'accusation d'heresie
Hobbes's Biblical Beasts: Leviathan and Behemoth
Beyond the actual works of nature a poet may now go; but beyond the conceived possibility of nature, never. I can allow a Geographer to make in the Sea, a Fish or a Ship, which by the scale of his map would be two or three hundred mile long, and think it done for ornament, because it is done without the precincts of his undertaking; but when he paints an Elephant so, I presently apprehend it as ignorance and a plain confession of Terra incognita.…
Mary Astell (1666-1731), Critic of Locke
In the now considerable literature reevaluating the reception of Locke'sTwo Treatises, no mention has been made of perhaps his first systematic critic, the commissioned Tory political pamphleteer, Mary Astell. Contemporaneous with Charles Leslie, who is usually credited with the honor, Astell had diagnosed Locke's political argument by 1705 and perhaps as early as 1700. Why has her contribution remained unacknowledged for so long? It is argued he…
Hobbes and Cluverius
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate politic…
Classical translation and political surrocacy
Republicanism, Freedom from Domination, and the Cambridge Contextual Historians
Philip Pettit, in Republicanism: a Theory of Freedom and Government (1997), draws on the historiography of classical republicanism developed by the Cambridge Contextual Historians, John Pocock and Quentin Skinner, to set up a programme for the recovery of the Roman Republican notion of freedom, as freedom from domination. But it is my purpose to show that classical republicanism, as a theory of institutional complexity and balanced government, co…
Algunas premisas de la historia de los conceptos (Begriffsgeschichte). Modernidad y conciencia histórica
Reinhart Koselleck, pionero de la Begriffsgeschichte, ha puesto de relieve en los últimos años que la conciencia histórica moderna es particularmente reflexiva. También los análisis del discurso realizados por la escuela francesa (Foucault, Derrida, Leotard) y los trabajos de los historiadores contextuales de Cambridge (John Pocock, Quentin Skinner y sus seguidores) han incidido en la misma disrección. A partir de las afirmaciones realizadas en d…
Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from Domination
Philosopher, theologian, educational theorist, feminist and political pamphleteer, Mary Astell was an important figure in the history of ideas of the early modern period. Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus, she is best known for the famous question which prefaces her Reflections on Marriage: 'If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?' She is claimed by modern Republican theorists and feminis…
Classical Modeling and the Circulation of Concepts in Early Modern Britain
cosmopolitanism and empireIf global identity may be seen to represent the cosmopolitanism of large aggregates or of empire, it also represents the class from which particularity is drawn.For empire lurked in the wings of the nation state from its very inception.As those small spaces carved out of the great garment of Christendom, the early modern European nation states not only emulated empires rather than city-states (hence Rome and not Greece),…
The Paradoxical Hobbes: A Critical Response to the Hobbes Symposium, Political Theory, Vol. 36, 2008
Attention has turned from Hobbes the systematic thinker to his inconsistencies, as the essays in the Hobbes symposium published in the recent volume of Political Theory suggest. Deborah Baumgold, in “The Difficulties of Hobbes Interpretation,” shifted the focus to “the history of the book,” and Hobbes’s method of serial composition and peripatetic insertion, as a major source of his inconsistency. Accepting Baumgold’s method, the author argues th…
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