Hobbes's Body Politics
From Life to Accountability in Leviathan
$491.40
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2026
Summary
Reconstructing the conceptual link between life and accountability, Meghan Robison presents a new account of political founding and obligation in Hobbes. Beginning from an interpretation of life as an idiosyncratic bodily motion—a motion of limbs that begins within a living body—she shows how the Commonwealth is instituted through our self-legislated embodied practices of holding ourselves to mutually beneficial shared rules.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399537216 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399537210 |
| Author: | Meghan Robison |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Cycles |
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About The Author
Meghan Robison
Meghan Robison is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montclair State University. Her work focuses on early modern political thought, with particular attention to Thomas Hobbes. She examines how philosophical understandings of living embodiment shape the ways human beings establish relations of authority, obligation, and accountability in political and domestic domains. She has published articles in Scienza & Politica, Arendt Studies, Hypatia, and Hobbes Studies, and has contributed a chapter to The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy (2025).
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