Jean-Jacques Rousseau and 'Le hobbisme le plus parfait' : an historical and philosophical study of Rousseau's engagement with Thomas Hobbes and Hobbism
This thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s engagement with the political thought of Thomas Hobbes and Hobbism. This involves tracing Hobbes’s French reception in the first half of the eighteenth century amongst authors with whom Rousseau was familiar, thereby elucidatin...
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University of Exeter
2011
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547026 |