Taming the Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Originally published in 2007, Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes''s ideas. In the first book-length treatment of the topic for over forty years, Jon Parkin follows the fate of Hobbes''s texts (particularly Leviathan) and the development of his co...