Autor(en)

Miller, Ted H.:

Verlag / Jahr

The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.

Format / Einband

Cloth with dustjacket. 338 p.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 635 g

ISBN

0271048913

EAN

9780271048918

Bestell-Nr

1173717

Bemerkungen

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket rubbed, otherwise very good condition. - According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from humanism to the scientific study of politics. In Mortal Gods, Ted Miller radically revises this view, arguing that Hobbes never ceased to be a humanist. Previous scholars have made the case for Hobbes as humanist by looking to his use of rhetoric; Miller instead rejects the applicability of the humanism/mathematics dichotomy and shows us the humanist face of Hobbes’s affinity for mathematical learning and practice. He thus reconnects Hobbes with the humanists who admired and cultivated mathematical learning—and with the material fruits of Great Britain’s mathematical practitioners. The result is a fundamental recasting of Hobbes’s project, a recontextualization of his thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and the court culture of the Stuart regimes. Mortal Gods stands as a new challenge to contemporary political theory and its settled narratives concerning politics, rationality, and violence. CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 The Humanist Face of Hobbes’s Mathematics, Part I 3 Constraints That Enable the Imitation of God 4 King of the Children of Pride: The Imitation of God in Context 5 Architectonic Ambitions: Mathematics and the Demotion of Physics 6 Eloquence and the Audience Thesis 7 All Other Doctrines Exploded: Hobbes, History, and the Struggle over Teaching 8 The Humanist Face of Hobbes’s Mathematics, Part 2: Leviathan and the Making of a Masque-Text 9 Conclusion Appendix: Who Is a Geometer? Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780271048918

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