Mastnak Tomaž - Hobbess Behemoth: religion and democracy

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HOBBESS BEHEMOTH

Religion and Democracy

Edited by Toma Mastnak

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Preface

The present volume originates in the 2003 international issue of Filozofski vestnik , the journal of the Institute of Philosophy in the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana. Contributions have been revised for the present edition and a substantive introduction has been added. I want to thank Matja Vesel, Managing Editor of Filozofski Vestnik , and Peter Klepec, Editor-in-Chief of Filozofski Vestnik , for giving me permission to reprint material from the Behemoth issue of Filozofski vestnik . I also want to thank Rado Riha, Head of the Institute of Philosophy, for his understanding and support of this project.

I thank John Dunn, Stephen Holmes, Istvn Hont, Noel Malcolm, and Richard Tuck for their encouragement and advice at the beginning of this project. I prepared the Behemoth issue of Filozofski vestnik while a Visiting Research Fellow at the Remarque Institute of New York University. I am thankful to its Director, Tony Judt, and Jair Kessler, the Assistant Director, for their hospitality.

I prepared the present volume at the University of California, Irvine, where I am a visiting researcher. My special thanks are due to Bill Maurer, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, and David Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, who provided me with an institutional home and workspace in California.

I am grateful to my wife, Julia Elyachar, for her support through the various incarnations of this project, to my son Elijan for the behemoths and leviathans he drew for the book, and to my son Martin for his hummingbirds.

Ruth Turner has read, commented on, and edited portions of the manuscript . I am deeply grateful for her work. I would like to acknowledge the crucial role Gabriella Slomp played in the process of turning the original journal issue into a book. I would also like to thank Paolo Cristofolini and Rina Nicastro for kindly sending me a copy of Onofrio Nicastros Note sul Behemoth di Thomas Hobbes , and Paul Seaward for allowing me to read the manuscript of his critical edition of Behemoth for the Clarendon edition of Hobbes.

Note on Citation

Throughout this volume, the following abbreviations are used:

EW

The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, ed. Sir William Molesworth, 11 vols (London: John Bohn, 1839-45).

OL

Opera Philosophica quae latine scripsit omnia , ed. Sir William Molesworth, 5 vols (London: John Bohn, 1839-45).

About the Authors

Ingrid Creppell is Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, Washington, DC. She is the author of Toleration and Identity: Foundations in Early Modern Thought (New York: Routledge, 2003), co-editor of Toleration on Trial (Lexington Books, 2008) and articles in Archives Europennes de Sociologie , Political Theory , and Res Publica .

Robert P. Kraynak is professor of political science at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He is the author of History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990); Christian Faith and Modern Democracy (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001); and the editor with Glenn Tinder of In Defense of Human Dignity (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).

William Lund is professor of political science at the University of Idaho. His research interests include the history of political thought and contemporary moral and political philosophy. He has published articles on Hobbes in History of Political Thought , Hobbes Studies , and The Journal of the History of Ideas . His work on issues in the debate between liberals and communitarians has been published in various journals, including Social Theory and Practice , Political Research Quarterly , and Journal of Social Philosophy , and as a chapter in Autonomy and Order: A Communitarian Anthology , ed. Edward Lehman (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. A member of the editorial board of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Hobbes, he has published an edition of Hobbess Correspondence in that series (2 vols, 1994), and is currently preparing both an edition of Leviathan (English and Latin) for it, and a biography of Hobbes. His Aspects of Hobbes was published by Clarendon Press in 2002. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

A. P. Martinich , Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor of Philosophy , Professor of History and Government, author of The Two Gods of Leviathan : Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), A Hobbes Dictionary (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers , 1995), Thomas Hobbes (London: Macmillan, 1997), Hobbes: A Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), Hobbes (Routledge, 2005); and editor of Philosophy of Language , 4 vols (Routledge, 2009).

Toma Mastnak is Director of Research in the Institute of Philosophy at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and is currently a Fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. He is the author of Crusading Peace: Christendom , the Muslim World, and Western Political Order (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002) and is completing a project on the history of the idea of Europe.

Paul Seaward has been Director of the History of Parliament in London since 2001. He has published work on politics in Restoration England, including The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661-67 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), on seventeenth -century royalism and on parliament in the twentieth century. His edition of Behemoth for the Clarendon edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes will be published in 2009. He is currently working on a biography of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, and is general editor, with Martin Dzelzainis, of an edition of Clarendons works.

Gabriella Slomp (PhD, LSE) is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). She is the author of Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory (Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000) and of Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror (Palgrave, 2009).

Johann P. Sommerville , professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of Royalists and Patriots: Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640 (Harlow: Longman, 1999), and of Thomas Hobbes: Political Ideas in Historical Context (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1992).

Tom Sorell is John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham . Among his books is Hobbes (London: Routledge, 1986). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), of Hobbes and History (London: Routledge, 2000, with John Rogers), and Leviathan After 350 Years (Oxford: Clarendon , 2005).

Michael A. Soubbotnik is Matre de Confrences de Philosophie at the University Paris-Est (laboratory LISAA 4120). He is the author of Philosophie des actes de langage: la doublure mentale et lordinaire des langues (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001).