A Bridge between Art and Philosophy
The Case of Thomas Hobbes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12418145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 627-638 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-7987 • E-ISSN: 1474-0575 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1062798722000059 |
| OpenAlex | W4220860964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The leading question raised by the rhetoricians of classical antiquity was how to speak with maximum persuasive force. You must find the means, they answered, to enable your readers to see what you are arguing. This initially gave rise to a preoccupation with visual metaphors and other so-called figures of speech. Much later, with the development of the printed book, this also led to the practice of inserting actual figures into books to provide visual summaries of their arguments. Here, one pioneer was Thomas Hobbes, and this article offers an interpretation of the frontispieces he included in his two main works of political philosophy, De cive and Leviathan . The moral Hobbes aims to convey is that we have no alternative but to submit to the protecting power of the sovereign state if we wish to live in security and peace
Aesthetics · Art · Bridge (graph theory · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · LEVIATHAN (cipher · Linguistics · Literature · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sovereignty · State (computer science · State of nature · Wish · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |