Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
- Length
- 101 mornings, about 2,100 words a reading
About the book
Leviathan is a book of political philosophy by Thomas Hobbes, an English thinker. He had moved to Paris in 1640, as the quarrel between King Charles I and Parliament grew, and he wrote the book there. It was published in London in 1651, two years after the king was executed. The title comes from the sea monster in the Book of Job. Hobbes uses it as an image of the state: an artificial man that people make to protect themselves.
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