Leviathan

Synopsis

With an introduction by dr richard serjeantson, trinity college, cambridgesince its first publication in 1651, thomas hobbes’s leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in english. Forged in the crucible of the civil and religious warfare of the mid-seventeenth century, it proposes a political theory that combines an unequivocal commitment to natural human liberty with the conviction that the sovereign power of government must be exercised absolutely.