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Elements of Representation in Hobbes

Aesthetics, Theatre, Law, and Theology in the Construction of Hobbes's Theory of the State

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

AvMónica Brito Vieira,Mónica Brito Vieira

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Commentators have traditionally constructed Hobbes's thinking on representation too narrowly, as a self-contained area of his political theory. This book challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, which owes less to Hobbes’s thought than to contemporary preconceptions of what counts as political thinking. In her powerful and original analysis, Mónica Brito Vieira mines neglected strands of Hobbes's theory of representation, and reinstates it in a much wider pattern of Hobbes’s theorizing about human thought and action in relation to widely varied images, roles and fictions. The result is a compelling portrait of how man's natural power to form representations through the imagination and artifice underpins his capacity to break away from nature, and fashion a world that best suits his needs.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-12-14
Mått160 x 240 x 23 mm
Vikt667 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in the History of Political Thought
Antal sidor286
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004181748

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Mónica Brito Vieira, Ph.D. (2005) in History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge, is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and a Visiting Scholar at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. She specializes in the history of political thought and contemporary political theory, and is the co-author (with David Runciman) of Representation (Polity, 2008).

Introductory NoteList of FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and EditionsIntroduction1. Aesthetic RepresentationIntroductionResemblance vs. RepresentationRepresentations or Perceptual ImagesImages of GodThe Sovereign as ImageImages of SaintsThe Eucharist: Presence or Representation?Metaphors as RepresentationsThe Representation of Objects in PerspectiveConclusion2. Dramatic RepresentationIntroduction: Hobbes and the TheatreThe Man and the PersonThe World as StageDis/simulating with OthersActors and HypocritesReligious Play-Acting and the Power of Crowds‘Quixotic’ Personalities and Republican MenTheatre of PoliticsThe Powers of TheatreThe Politics of TheatreConclusion3. Juridical RepresentationIntroductionThe Elemental ViewRepresentation by FictionThe State as PersonRepresenting the Covenant into BeingThe Representativeness of the SovereignParliament as RepresentationThe Dangers of Subordinate RepresentationThe State’s Many GuisesConclusion4. Representation in TheologyIntroductionThree Persons as Three RepresentativesThree Persons as Three RolesRevisions in Response to Critics The Trinity as Political Analogy ConclusionBibliographyIndex

"Le livre de Monica Brito Vieira représente une contribution importante à la discussion contemporaine sur la conception hobbesienne de la notion de représentation. [...] Brito Vieira démontre de manière convaincante que la conception hobbesienne de la représentation ne peut se réduire à l’interprétation de son aspect juridique." Luka Ribarevic, Archives de Philosophie (2012) Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 365-367.Knjiga Mónice Brito Vieire jedan je od najvažnijih doprinosa suvremenoj raspravi o Hobbesovoj znanosti o politici.Luka Ribarević, Politicka misao 47:1 (2010) 245-251.

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