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"Leviathan" is borrowed from the biblical sea monster that Thomas Hobbes used as a metaphor for the State in his own book of that title.As the "Phantom of Liberty", blowing up replicas of the Statue of Liberty around the country – the novel's protagonist is a Hobbesian hero whose nemesis is the State; his self-inflicted death, a metaphor for man's doomed struggle.
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). [1] [5] [6] Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan.
Leviathan is a 2009 novel written by Scott Westerfeld and illustrated by Keith Thompson. It is the first work in the trilogy of the same name, followed by sequels Behemoth and Goliath . [ 1 ]
Leviathan (Westerfeld novel), a 2009 novel by Scott Westerfeld; Leviathan, a 1975 novel in The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea; Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney, a 1999 book by John Birmingham; Leviathan, a 2007 book by Eric Jay Dolin about whaling; Leviathan, or The Whale, a 2008 book by Philip Hoare
Fredy Perlman (1934–1985) was an American author, publisher, and activist. His best-known work, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!, retells the historical rise of state domination (and domination generally) through a poetic investigation of the Hobbesian metaphor of the Leviathan.
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Behemoth was written in 1668 as a follow-up to a previous and scandalous political work, Leviathan (1651). Leviathan is a representation of an ideal political world, and Behemoth has been considered to be a contrasting treatise on what happens when the very worst abuses of government come to pass. [1]
It is encylopedic inhow it well llustrates how Hobbes describes the state; an irresistible giant force aided by its bureaucrats that enforces order over society Articles in which this image appears Leviathan (Hobbes book) - Thomas Hobbes - Abraham Bosse - Leviathan in popular culture - Social contract Western canon - State (polity) - Polity ...