Major Works
Leviathan, or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil (1651)
- Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668. Edited by Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1994.The Leviathan is Hobbes’s masterwork, published in 1651. It contains four parts: “Of Man,” “Of Commonwealth,” “Of a Christian Commonwealth,” and “Of the Kingdom of Darkness.” “Of Man” connects… More
Commentary
“Thomas Hobbes”
- Berns, Lawrence. "Thomas Hobbes." In History of Political Philosophy, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, 396–420. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.Lawrence Berns’ essay on Thomas Hobbes, featured in History of Political Philosophy (3rd ed.), offers a comprehensive analysis of Hobbes’s political theories. Berns examines Hobbes’s views on human nature, the state of nature, and the… MoreHobbes: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Tuck
- Tuck, Richard. Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.Richard Tuck’s Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction offers a concise yet profound exploration of Thomas Hobbes’s philosophy, challenging common misconceptions about his work. Often caricatured as a pessimistic atheist advocating for totalitarian rule,… MoreHobbes
- Bernard Gert (Polity, 2010)A book-length study of Hobbes’ political and moral teaching that resists the psychological egoism often attributed to Hobbes by emphasizing the distinction between justice and morality in his political theory.