Hobbes's On the Citizen

Robin Douglass is Reader in Political Theory at King's College London. Johan Olsthoorn is Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation (FWO)-Flanders at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

• Introduction Robin Douglass and Johan Olsthoorn; 1. Excavating On the Citizen Deborah Baumgold and Ryan Harding; 2. Hobbes and Aristotle on the foundation of political science Nicholas Gooding and Kinch Hoekstra; 3. All the mind's pleasure: glory, self-admiration, and moral motivation in On the Citizen and Leviathan S. A. Lloyd; 4. The right of nature and political disobedience: Hobbes's puzzling thought experiment Susanne Sreedhar; 5. Motivation, reason, and the good in On the Citizen Michael LeBuffe; 6. Property and despotic sovereignty Laurens van Apeldoorn; 7. Sovereignty and dominium: the foundations of Hobbesian statehood Daniel Lee; 8. Corporate persons without authorization Michael J. Green; 9. Hobbes on love and fear of God Thomas Holden; 10. 'A rhapsody of heresies': the scriptural politics of On the Citizen Alison McQueen; 11. On the Citizen and church-state relations Johann Sommerville; 12. Sovereign-making and biblical covenants in On the Citizen A. P. Martinich.

'Douglass and Olsthoorn, and the authors they have brought together, have done Hobbes scholars a tremendous service with this excellent collection of essays focussed specifically on Hobbes's De Cive – not as a precursor to Leviathan, but on its own terms.' Arash Abizadeh, McGill University, Montreal