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Ted H. Miller - Mortal Gods. Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas Hobbes

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Penn State Press, 2011. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 338. According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from humanism to the scientific study of politics. In Mortal Gods, Ted Miller radically revises this view, arguing that Hobbes never ceased to be a humanist. While previous scholars have made the case for Hobbes as humanist by looking to his use of rhetoric, Miller rejects the humanism/mathematics dichotomy altogether and shows us the humanist face of Hobbes&`s affinity for mathematical learning and practice. He thus reconnects Hobbes with the humanists who admired and cultivated mathematical learning&"and with the material fruits of Great Britain&`s mathematical practitioners. The result is a fundamental recasting of Hobbes&`s project, a recontextualization of his thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and the court culture of the Stuart regimes. Mortal Gods stands as a new challenge to contemporary political theory and its settled narratives concerning politics, rationality, and violence. ISBN: 9780271048918. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
EUR 65.00 [Appr.: US$ 76.27 | £UK 56.5 | JP¥ 11222] Book number 3078425

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