Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory

Gabriella Slomp is Lecturer in Political Theory, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations to Hobbes's Works Quoted in the Text Introduction: The Political Geometry of Glory PART I: ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL GEOMETRY The Coordinates of Man: Time and Space Fatal Equality The Axiom of Glory Glory: Parallels and Intersections Ambition: Paradoxes and Puzzles The Dilemma of Fear and Hope The Trajectory of Glory Glory and the Excellent Sex The Determinants of the Citizen: Nature and Nurture PART II: THEOREMS OF POLITICAL GEOMETRY The Rational Actor at Play Hobbes's Impossibility Theorem The Ideology of Political Geometry End Notes Selected Bibliography Name Index

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