关键词：
17TH century English philosophy
POLITICAL philosophy
NONFICTION
GREAT Britain
摘要：
Dr Malcolm's previous work, notably his edition of Hobbes's correspondence in the same series and his substantial collection of essays on Aspects of Hobbes (2002), has demonstrated an impressively wide and deep knowledge of Hobbes's life and work, the publishing history of his books, and the intellectual milieu-particularly the world of European learning-in which he moved.
The introduction is itself a complete volume which leads us carefully through the intricate history of the writing of Leviathan, setting out the chronology of its composition, so far as that can be determined, noting the ways in which Leviathan develops or changes ideas previously propounded in The Elements of Law and De Cive, and relating its thought to contemporary political and religious debates.
Dr Malcolm is an accomplished biographical scholar and intellectual historian, but he is also a gifted bibliographer and historian of the book, and substantial portions of the introduction explain the process of printing Leviathan, charting the textual relationships between the printed text, the presentation manuscript, and the subsequent Latin translation.
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