Major Works

• Leviathan, or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil [1651]

  - Hackett, 1994 (Edwin Curley, ed.)
  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”

  - Lawrence Berns, in History of Political Philosophy (Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey, eds., University of Chicago Press, 1987), pp. 396-420
  Berns’ summary of Hobbes’ political teaching is included in a famous collection of essays on the history of political philosophy to which many students of Leo Strauss contributed.

• Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction

  - Richard Tuck (Oxford Paperbacks, 2002)
  Hobbes has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings.  Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes’s philosophy in light of his passionate concern… More

• Hobbes

  - 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.