Plague and the Leviathan

Hobbes Studies 36 (2):221-233 (2023)
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Building on a number of recent studies that have turned to Hobbes in light of covid-19, I explore the context of Hobbes’ own encounters with plague while at Oxford, along with efforts to mitigate plague by the regime of James I. I then explore what role his encounters with plague may have played as he wrote his philosophical masterpiece, Leviathan.

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10.1163/18750257-bja10068

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