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Hobbes's Materialist Agenda: The Politics of Early Modern Science

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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrea BardinSeries:CyclesPublish date:1/31/2026Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399540872ISBN-10:1399540874UPC:9781399540872Book Category:Philosophy, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Individual Philosophers, Political, History & TheorySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SC8X24PSNF
In this major contribution to our understanding of Hobbes's political thought, Andrea Bardin contends that it should be analysed in relation to the 'materialist agenda' Hobbes was pursuing when confronting Descartes's project. Bardin pinpoints the changes in Hobbes's political thought to the intellectual context in which he elaborated his materialist ontology and epistemology. He investigates the classical sources that initially shaped Hobbes's political thinking, including Thucydides and Aristotle, as well as the broad materialist agenda that Hobbes drew from Bacon and elaborated in opposition to Descartes. He studies Hobbes's exchanges with his contemporary interlocutors in the Mersenne circle, including Descartes and Gassendi, with whom he discussed first philosophy and natural philosophy. In this way, Bardin vindicates materialist critiques of the idealist foundations of early modern mechanical philosophy.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399540872ISBN-10:1399540874UPC:9781399540872Book Category:Philosophy, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Individual Philosophers, Political, History & TheorySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SC8X24PSNF
Bardin, Andrea: - Andrea Bardin is Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua. He works on the relationship between science and political thought, and political anthropology from early modernity to the present. He has written extensively on Gilbert Simondon and Thomas Hobbes, and is the author of Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon: Individuation, Technics, Social Systems (Springer, 2015) and Hobbes's Materialist Agenda: The Politics of Early Modern Science (Edinburgh University Press, 2026).
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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