That Democratic Ink Must Be Wiped Away
Hobbes and the Normativity of Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6401774 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher M Holman (0000-0001-5542-807X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 305-328 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670521000127 |
| OpenAlex | W3172645067 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
Hobbes's preference for monarchical sovereign forms and his critique of democratic political organization are well known. In this article I suggest, however, that his opposition to democratic life constitutes the central frame through which we must understand some of the most important theoretical mutations that occur throughout the various stages of his civil science. Key alterations in the Hobbesian political theory from The Elements of Law to Leviathan can be interpreted as efforts to retroactively foreclose the emergence of a substantive democratic normativity that the prior theoretical framework allowed for or suggested. Hobbes's opposition to democracy is ultimately so significant so as to fundamentally structure various key elements of his political philosophy
Democracy · Democratic Theory · Law and economics · LEVIATHAN (cipher · Monarchy · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Popular sovereignty · Sociology · Sovereignty · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Elusive Unity
Hobbes, Skinner and the Person of the state
Textual context in the history of political thought and intellectual history
History of Political Thought as Detective-Work
Liberty and Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes's Materialism, Language, and the Possibility of Politics
Political Theory beyond the Rhetoric–Reason Divide
The Problem of Flattery and Hobbes’s Institutional Defense of Monarchy
Hobbes on Democracy
On the Sovereign Authorization
Democratical Gentlemen and the Lust for Mastery
Thomas Hobbes and the Constituent Power of the People
The two faces of personhood
Of mushrooms and method
Leviathan Contra Leviathan
Extended Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |