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Hobbes: Prophet of the Enlightenment or Justice of the Peace? - Devin Stauffer: Hobbes's Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 336.)

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Devin Stauffer: Hobbes's Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 336.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2019

Ioannis D. Evrigenis
Ioannis D. Evrigenis*
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Tufts University
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A Symposium on Devin Stauffer's Hobbes's Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy
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The Review of Politics , Volume 82 , Issue 1 , Winter 2020 , pp. 129 - 133
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 2019

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References

1 All references to Leviathan are to the 1651 edition, by chapter and page numbers.

2 Evrigenis, Ioannis D., Images of Anarchy: The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes's State of Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Stauffer's interpretation of a commonwealth “of any religion at all” (268) takes Hobbes's words out of context. In that passage (L, 31: 192), Hobbes is only arguing that a commonwealth of several religions is like a commonwealth with no religion at all. He is not envisioning a commonwealth without religion.