Yashar Jeyrani has translated the book and Ghoghnoos Publishing House has brought it out in 246 pages, ILNA reported. In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in ...

Hobbes is best known for Leviathan (1651), regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of political ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Political Theory (PT), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, serves as the leading forum for the development and exchange of ...

The dominant narrative today of modern political power, inspired by Foucault, is one that traces the move from the spectacle of the scaffold to the disciplining of bodies whereby the modern political ...

When it comes to 17th-century English philosophers, Thomas Hobbes holds a lot of appeal. He wrote with vivid prose, rich argument and a stinging wit. He was also ahead of his time. Nearly 400 years ...

When I was a college freshman, many years ago, I enrolled in a course on the history of Western Civilization. In it, we began by reading Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and other prominent ...