Leviathan (AmazonClassics Edition)

Name: Leviathan (AmazonClassics Edition)
Brand: AmazonClassics
SKU: 104150
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Leviathan Amazon Classics Edition is a comprehensive and authoritative text published by Amazon Classics. This English language edition, released on June 25, 2019, features enhanced typesetting, text-to-speech, screen reader support, and X-Ray functionality, spanning 660 pages for an immersive reading experience.

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Tags: 2019 publication, Amazon Classics, Classic Literature, English ebook, Leviathan book, political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes

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In a world rife with willful chaos, how can order be restored? Philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s answer, composed amid the violence of the English Civil War, revolutionized political thought. His solution was a commonwealth, or Leviathan, a body politic ruled and protected by an absolute sovereign. Its power would be dependent on the people to exchange their freedom for the security and order of a common law. Only with this social contract, Hobbes argued, can civil peace be established.

A witty, imaginative, and eternally provocative philosophical bulwark, Leviathan was burned upon publication for being seditious. It remains one of the most influential and fundamental texts of social theory ever written.

Revised edition: Previously published as Leviathan, this edition of Leviathan (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Attributes	Value
Publisher	AmazonClassics (June 25, 2019)
Publication date	June 25, 2019
Language	English
File size	1.9 MB
Text-to-Speech	Enabled
Screen Reader	Supported
Enhanced typesetting	Enabled
X-Ray	Enabled
Word Wise	Not Enabled
Print length	660 pages
Publisher	AmazonClassics