Overview
Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy. This book offers a new reading of his intellectual development, arguing that he was dubious about the place of rhetoric in civil society and came to see it as a pernicious presence within philosophy - a position from which he did not retreat.
- | Author: Timothy Raylor
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0198829698
- | ISBN-13: 9780198829690