Leviathan
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 3 months for £0.99/mo
Leviathan
Buy Now for £16.99
-
Narrated by:
-
Philip Stevens
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Philip Stevens. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Brooke.
Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma of these events led to his great masterpiece of political thought. How could humankind rescue itself from life in the natural state, which was 'poor, nasty, brutish and short'? What form of politics would provide the security that he and his contemporaries craved?
Vilified and scorned from the moment it was published, Leviathan was publicly burnt for sedition, but ever since it has exercised a unique fascination upon its readers, both for its ideas and its remarkable prose. Its concepts helped to drag Europe into a new world - one in which we still live today.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©Public Domain, 2017 Christopher Brooke (P)2021 Penguin AudioListeners also enjoyed...
it was like listening to hobbes throughout
hobbes on occasion in the work expresses a hope that it might one day fall into the hands of those who might benefit from it
I think it fell into the hands of the daleks
philip stevens
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.