This Norton Critical Edition of arguably the greatest work of political the ory written in the English language contains the bulk of Hobbes's treatise,including all chapters except those which are of interest primarily to professional historical scholars. To make Hobbes's sometimes archaic prose more accessible to students, the editors have included explanatory annotations throughout.

Preface

The Text of Leviathan

Backgrounds

HOBBES'S LIFE

Pierre Bayle·From the Dictionary Historical

  and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle

  HOBBES'S SELF-DEFENSE

From Considerations upon the Reputation, Loyalty

  and Manners of T. Hobbes

From Six Lessons for the Savilian Professors in Oxford

REACTIONS TO HOBBES

Sir Robert Filmer·From Observations Concerning the

  Originall of Government, Upon Mr Hobs Leviathan

James Harrington·From The Prerogative of

  Popular Government

Bishop Bramhall·From The Catching of Leviathan

Edward Hyde·From A Brief View and Survey

  of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to

  Church and State in... Leviathan

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz·State-Sovereignty

Montesquieu·Of the Laws of Nature

Henry Sidgwick·Hobbes

Interpretations

Michael Oakeshott·Introduction to Leviathan

Leo Strauss·From Natural Right and History

Johann P. Sommerville·[Hobbes on Political Obligation]

Richard Tuck·[Hobbes on Skepticism and Moral

  Conflict]

Jean Hampton·The Failure of Hobbes's Social

  Contract Argument

David Johnston·Theory and Transformation:

  The Politics of Enlightenment

George Kateb·Hobbes and the Irrationality of Politics

Richard E. Flathman·Of Making and Unmaking

Selected Bibliography

Selected Glossary

Index of Authorities Cited in Leviathan