Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition by Jean Hampton

Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition by Jean Hampton

This major study of Hobbes' political philosophy draws on recent developments in game and decision theory to explore whether the thrust of the argument in Leviathan, that it is in the interests of the people to create a ruler with absolute power, can be shown to be cogent. Professor Hampton has written a book of vital importance to political philosophers, political and social scientists, and intellectual historians.

'Hampton's ingenious argument … is the best that has yet been advanced to explain how Hobbesian persons could institute a sovereign' David Gauthier, Philosophy and Public Affairs

Hampton, Jean: - Jean Hampton completed her PhD under the direction of John Rawls at Harvard University. She was a Harvard Knox Fellow at Cambridge University, Pew Evangelical Scholar, and a distinguished visiting lecturer at Dalhousie University, University of Notre Dame, Pomona College, and Bristol University. She taught at several American institutions, most recently the University of Arizona, where she was a professor of philosophy at the time of her death in 1996. Her last book, The Authority of Reason, was published posthumously in 1998.

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ISBN 13	9780521368278
ISBN 10	0521368278
Title	Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition
Author	Jean Hampton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1988-08-26
Number of pages	316
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