Spinoza's Critique of Hobbes
Law, Power, Freedom
$491.40
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2026
Summary
Christian Lazzeri examines the relationship between the political theory of Hobbes and that of Spinoza. Arguing against longstanding one-sided interpretations, he shows how Spinoza both took up and modified, accepted and distanced himself from Hobbes’s ideas. This also brings out problematic aspects of Hobbes’s thinking from Spinoza’s perspective.
Most importantly, Lazzeri traces how Spinoza constructed a political philosophy, not on the narrow basis of an autonomous political sphere …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399525251 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399525255 |
| Author: | Christian Lazzeri, Nils F. Schott |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Spinoza Studies |
About The Author
Christian Lazzeri
Christian Lazzeri is Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at Paris Nanterre University. His books include Droit, pouvoir et liberte (1998), Force et justice dans la politique de Pascal (1993), and the edited volumes Spinoza: Puissance et impuissance de la raison (1998), La reconnaissance aujourd’hui (2009), and Reconnaissance, identite et integration sociale (2009). He has published numerous translations and authored over one hundred articles in political philosophy, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of the social sciences.
Nils F. Schott is an academic translator and editor. With Alexandre Lefebvre, he co-edited Henri Bergson’s lectures on Freedom at the College de France (2024), Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays (2019), and translated Vladimir Jankelevitch’s Henri Bergson (2015). With Hent de Vries, he edited Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World (2015). He has translated over twenty books in philosophy and related fields, including Laurent de Sutter’s Deleuze’s Philosophy of Law.
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