Leviathan (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Leviathan ranks as a classic Western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli's The Prince. It concerns the structure of society and legitimate government and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Written during the English Civil War (1642-1651) Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature (the war of all against all) could only be avoide...See More