Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Fear: the History of a Political Idea, [2] which aims to ...

When it comes to 17th-century English philosophers, Thomas Hobbes holds a lot of appeal. He wrote with vivid prose, rich argument and a stinging wit. He was also ahead of his time. Nearly 400 years ...

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the most influential of all political philosophers. His book Leviathan virtually founded the study of the modern state. When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in ...

Thomas Hobbes professed the most surprising beliefs about God. God is corporeal he declares. He says this while calmly drawing attention to the first of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company has launched some pretty outlandish plays in the past year or so, but few can top this one by the U.S. maverick showman Adriano Shaplin. His ostensible subject is the ...

A newly discovered document, written by one of Europe's most famous philosophers, Thomas Hobbes, reveals a plan that, if successful, could have turned the tide of one of England's bloodiest wars. In ...

In the Right-wing corner we have Thomas Hobbes, founding father of political philosophy, who argued that man is born wicked and must be civilised. Left in a “state of nature”, Hobbes famously argued, ...

The philosopher Thomas Hobbes is our best guide to the underlying logic of current American politics, that is, as to how and why extreme civil strife seems to invite one-man rule. Donald Trump’s ...

Chaos and carnage hover over the novels of Cormac McCarthy and the writings of thinker Thomas Hobbes. It's not a love of domination that makes people violent, but the need for safety, says philosopher ...