Leviathan

by Schuhmann, Karl; Hobbes, Thomas; Rogers, G. A. J.

• ISBN13: 9781843711322
• ISBN10: 184371132X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Thoemmes

Summary

By a careful analysis of the text, enabling a printing history of Leviathan to be constructed, this edition demonstrates that the traditional picture is substantially wrong. The editors examine previous editions of Leviathan as well as the manuscript copy prepared for Hobbes as a presentation copy for the King) throwing light on its history.

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Introduction

Preface

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Part I: The Genesis of Leviathan

Part II: Hobbesian Sources of Leviathan

Part III: The Different Versions of Leviathan

    III.1. The Egerton Manuscript

    III.2. The 'Head' Edition

    III.3.Twentieth-Century Reprints of the 'Head' Edition

        III.3.A. The Waller Edition

        III.3.B. The Pogson Smith Edition

        III.3.C. The Lindsay Edition

        III.3.D. The Macpherson Edition

        III.3.E. The Solar Press Edition

        III.3.F. The Tuck Edition

        III.3.G. Excursus: Hobbesian Variants in the 'Head' Edition?

        I II.3.H. The Tricaud Translation

III.4. The 'Bear' Edition

III.5. The 'Ornaments' Edition

III.6. A Re-eotopm in 1680?

III.7. The 1750 Edition

III.8. The Molesworth Edition

III.9. Twentieth-Century Pseudo-Editions

    III.9.A. The Oakeshott Edition

    III.9.B. The Curley Edition

    III.9.C. The Gaskin Editin

    III.9.D. The Flathman/Johnston Edition

Part IV. The Latin Leviathan

    IV.1. A Latin Proro-Leviathan?

    IV.2. The Latin Edition of 1668

    IV.3. The Later Latin Editions

Part V. The Present Edition

 

Volume II: Leviathan

List of Abbreviations

Leviathan

The Contents of the Chapters

The First Part, OF MAN

The Second Part, OF COMMON-WEALTH

The Third Part, OF A CHRISTIAN COMMON-WEALTH

The Fourth Part, OF THE KINGDOME OF DARKNESSE