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Andrea Bardin - Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda, Inbunden

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Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda

The Politics of Early Modern Science

Av Andrea Bardin

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In this major contribution to our understanding of Hobbes's political thought, Andrea Bardin contends that it should be analysed in relation to the 'materialist agenda' Hobbes was pursuing when confronting Descartes's project. Bardin pinpoints the changes in Hobbes's political thought to the intellectual context in which he elaborated his materialist ontology and epistemology. He investigates the classical sources that initially shaped Hobbes's political thinking, including Thucydides and Aristotle, as well as the broad materialist agenda that Hobbes drew from Bacon and elaborated in opposition to Descartes. He studies Hobbes's exchanges with his contemporary interlocutors in the Mersenne circle, including Descartes and Gassendi, with whom he discussed first philosophy and natural philosophy. In this way, Bardin vindicates materialist critiques of the idealist foundations of early modern mechanical philosophy.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-01-31
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 466 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Cycles
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399540872
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Andrea Bardin is Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua. He works on the relationship between science and political thought, and political anthropology from early modernity to the present. He has written extensively on Gilbert Simondon and Thomas Hobbes, and is the author of Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon: Individuation, Technics, Social Systems (Springer, 2015) and Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda: The Politics of Early Modern Science (Edinburgh University Press, 2026).

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This is a meticulously researched and carefully wrought study of the epistemological and ontological quandaries Hobbes navigated while engaging challenges posed by Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes. Bardin gives a fascinating analysis of the compromises Hobbes makes vis à vis his materialist metaphysics for the sake of securing political stability.

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