Lloyd - Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century

Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists, and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed 17th-century English philosopher, can illuminate the political and social problems we face today. Its essays demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Hobbess political thought on such issues as justice, human rights, public reason, international warfare, punishment, fiscal policy, and the design of positive law. The volumes contributors include both Hobbes specialists and philosophers bringing their expertise to consideration of Hobbess texts for the first time. This volume will stimulate renewed interest in Hobbes studies among a new generation of thinkers.

S. A. Lloyd is Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Political Science at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Cases in the Law of Nature (Cambridge, 2009) and Ideals as Interests in Hobbess Leviathan (Cambridge, 1992).

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