{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7a3c5644-595b-4535-89cb-4df503953241/6e730dd0-e884-41dd-be20-44d3d8273845?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Hobbes on the State","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195407ecb03c875f76170fd/6195408e054fb40012de7d5a.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Thomas Hobbes’s <em>Leviathan</em> (1651) reimagined how we could do politics.&nbsp;It redefined many of the ideas that continue to shape modern politics: representation, sovereignty, the state.&nbsp;But in <em>Leviathan</em> these ideas have a strange and puzzling power.&nbsp;David explores what Hobbes was trying to achieve and how a vision of politics that came out of the English civil war, can still illuminate the world we live in.</p><p><br></p><p>Free online version of the text:</p><ul><li>&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm</a></li></ul><p>Recommended version to purchase:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/hobbes-leviathan-revised-student-edition?format=PB\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/hobbes-leviathan-revised-student-edition?format=PB</a></li></ul><p>Going Deeper:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199783267.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199791941-e-008\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">David Runciman, ‘The sovereign’ in The Oxford handbook of Hobbes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/hobbes-a-very-short-introduction-9780192802552?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Tuck, Hobbes a Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://vimeo.com/14979551\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">(Video) Quentin Skinner, ‘What is the state? The question that will not go away’</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iG-093aY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">(Video) Sophie Smith, ‘The nature of politics’, the 2017 Quentin Skinner lecture.&nbsp;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://global.oup.com/academic/product/aspects-of-hobbes-9780199275403?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;#\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Noel Malcolm, Aspects of Hobbes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/27/coronavirus-politics-lockdown-hobbes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">David for The Guardian on Hobbes and the coronavirus</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Talking Politics"}