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The Two Gods of "Leviathan": Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics. (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, September, 1993 by Johnston, David
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A significant revival in the study of Hobbes's political theory has been underway from the mid-1980s onward. One facet of this revival has been a new effort to take the text of Hobbes's masterpiece, Leviathan, seriously as a whole. Both these books continue that effort but with quite different degrees of success.
Sharon Lloyd's argument begins from recognition of the fact that human beings are interested in things other than their own preservation and comfort. Some of these interests, she points out, are "transcendent," that is, they (sometimes) take priority over ...
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