Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the structure of government and society and argues for strong central governance and the rule of an absolute sovereign as the way to avoid civil war and chaos.
Leviathan
Ce livre fait peut-être partie de la série Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
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519 pages
Langue : English
Publié 2 juin 1991 par Cambridge University Press.
Sujets
- Political science -- Early works to 1800.
- State, The.