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Before anarchy : Hobbes and his critics in modern international thought
- Title
- Before anarchy : Hobbes and his critics in modern international thought / Theodore Christov (George Washington University).
- Author
- Christov, Theodore
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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- Description
- x, 297 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "How did the "Hobbesian state of nature" and the "discourse of anarchy"- separated by three centuries- come to be seen as virtually synonymous? Before Anarchy offers a novel account of Hobbes's interpersonal and international state of nature and rejects two dominant views. In one, international relations is a warlike Hobbesian anarchy, and in the other, state sovereignty eradicates the state of nature. In combining the contextualist method in the history of political thought and the historiographical method in international relations theory, Before Anarchy traces Hobbes's analogy between natural men and sovereign states and its reception by Pufendorf, Rousseau, and Vattel in showing their intellectual convergence with Hobbes. Far from defending a "realist" international theory, the leading political thinkers of early modernity were precursors of the most enlightened liberal theory of international society today. By demolishing twentieth-century anachronisms, Before Anarchy bridges the divide between political theory, international relations, and intellectual history"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Hobbesian variations: 1. Introduction: Hobbes after anarchy; 2. Hobbes before anarchy; 3. Hobbes without anarchy; 4. Hobbes against anarchy; Part II. Hobbesian receptions: 5. Pufendorf's anti-Hobbesian camouflage; 6. Pufendorf's international thought; 7. Rousseau and the quest for peace; 8. Vattel the sorry comforter; Epilogue: globalizing political thought.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-2764
- ISBN
- 9781107114531
- 1107114535
- LCCN
- 2015024722
- OCLC
- 918940652
- Author
- Christov, Theodore, author.
- Title
- Before anarchy : Hobbes and his critics in modern international thought / Theodore Christov (George Washington University).
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-2764