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Leviathan : body politic as visual strategy in the work of Thomas Hobbes
- Title
- Leviathan : body politic as visual strategy in the work of Thomas Hobbes / Horst Bredekamp ; translated, edited, and adapted by Elizabeth Clegg.
- Author
- Bredekamp, Horst, 1947-
- Publication
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
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- Additional Authors
- Clegg, Elizabeth
- Description
- xi, 279 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- Horst Bredekamp's subject is the surprising resonance of the image of the embodied state that dominates the frontispiece to Leviathan: the treatise on humanity in its "political" dimension published in 1651 by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Opening with a succinct exposition of how intimately this image is related to some of the fundamental themes addressed by Hobbes, Bredekamp then rigorously pursues the art-historical question of the authorship of the title-page. In the central chapters, the frontispiece is assessed in relation both to venerable visual and intellectual traditions and to some of the scientific innovations of the mid-17th century. The conclusion is devoted to the importance of several of the most far-reaching preoccupations of Hobbes as a profound and original thinker.
- Uniform Title
- Thomas Hobbes - Der Leviathan. English
- Alternative Title
- Thomas Hobbes - Der Leviathan.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Early works.
- Illustrated works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-4741
- ISBN
- 9783110681369
- 3110681366
- LCCN
- 2020942054
- 9783110681369
- OCLC
- 1193277502
- Author
- Bredekamp, Horst, 1947- author.
- Title
- Leviathan : body politic as visual strategy in the work of Thomas Hobbes / Horst Bredekamp ; translated, edited, and adapted by Elizabeth Clegg.
- Publisher
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index.
- Added Author
- Clegg, Elizabeth, translator, editor.
- Other Form:
- 9783110634525 German edition9783110681413 PDF version
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783110681369
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-4741