THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HOBBES'S POLITICAL THOUGHT*
@article{Hamilton2014THESC, title={THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HOBBES'S POLITICAL THOUGHT*}, author={J. Hamilton}, journal={Modern Intellectual History}, year={2014}, volume={11}, pages={1 - 29} }
The social context of Hobbes's political thought is ripe for reassessment in light of advances in the social history of seventeenth-century England in the past half-century. The evidence does not support C. B. Macpherson's claim that England had a “possessive market society” which became the social model for Hobbes's political theory, nor the case that Hobbes was a bourgeois ideologist. A new examination of his social theory, his social identity, his social prejudices and his understanding of… Expand
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