{"product_id":"leviathan","title":"Leviathan","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was published. But his penetrating work of political philosophy - now fully revised and with a new introduction for this edition - opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world. Edited with a new introduction by Christopher Brooke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: in UK in 2017\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003ePages: 576\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780141395098\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 0141395095\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Hobbes, Christopher Brooke (INT)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32777869590631,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/0141395095_19768020-948b-4226-81af-0f31eadefa75.jpg?v=1601544397","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/leviathan","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}