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Along the way, he overturns longstanding interpretations of Hobbes' political thought, explores how new technologies will alter the practice of state responsibility as we know it, and develops new accounts of political authority, representation, and legitimacy. He argues that Hobbes' idea of the state offers a far richer and more realistic conception of state responsibility than the theories prevalent today, and demonstrates that Hobbes' Leviathan is much more than an anthropomorphic \"artificial man.\"  Leviathan on a Leash is essential reading for political theorists, scholars of international relations, international lawyers, and philosophers. 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From a cabin in Montana, Kaczynski waged a seventeen-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured twenty-three. From a prison cell, he spent the next twenty-seven years building a movement. His manifesto outsells Foucault, Freud, and Nietzsche. Ecofascists call him \"Saint Ted.\" And a new generation of anti-tech radicals has revived his war against the modern world, torching cell towers, sending bombs to scientists, and plotting to take down the electric grid. Yet three decades after the Unabomber Manifesto was published in The Washington Post, almost no one has seriously studied it. Sean Fleming has—and what he finds upends nearly everything we think we know about the man in the cabin.  Delving into Kaczynski's journals, letters, and unpublished essays, Fleming reconstructs the Unabomber's intellectual world. The result is a portrait of a thinker far more disciplined than the \"madman\" of popular legend. Kaczynski was no mystic. 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