 | Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Thomas Hobbes
Buy new: $11.87 / Used from: $2.70 An outstanding modern version of Hobbes's greatest work.
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 | Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $3.73 An alternative and equally superb modern edition of Hobbes's masterpiece.
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 | Behemoth or The Long Parliament by Thomas Hobbes
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $12.49 A later work by Hobbes in which he analyzes the results of the English Civil War.
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 | Human Nature and DeCorpore Politico (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hobbes
Buy used from: $3.35 Essential early works by Hobbes that are crucial to understanding his later work, especially LEVIATHAN.
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 | Hobbes: On the Citizen (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Thomas Hobbes
Buy new: $21.18 / Used from: $13.00 Hobbes's first attempt to express his political philosophy. Interesting in its own right, but provides insight into LEVIATHAN.
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 | Brief Lives (Penguin Classics) by John Aubrey
Buy used from: $14.99 One of the most enjoyable books ever written in English, this 17th century equivalent of PEOPLE magazine contains a witty, affectionate, quirky brief bio of Hobbes.
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 | Hobbes: A Biography by A. P. Martinich
Buy new: $90.00 / Used from: $3.73 An excellent scholarly biography of Hobbes. Provides a superb treatment of his life and development of his ideas.
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 | The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 1: The Renaissance by Quentin Skinner
Buy new: $28.04 / Used from: $14.10 First volume of arguably the finest history of political thought in the early modern period. The two volumes together provide exceptional background for understanding Hobbes.
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 | The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2: The Age of Reformation by Quentin Skinner
Buy new: $26.68 / Used from: $16.09 The first volume of this set focused on the Renaissance's contribution to modern political thought. The second volume surveys the Reformation's contribution.
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 | Philosophy and Government 1572-1651 (Ideas in Context) by Richard Tuck
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $36.92 This exceptional historical work provides the late 16th and early 17th century intellectual background for Hobbes work.
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 | Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development by Richard Tuck
Buy used from: $54.55 Discusses at length the natural rights theorists that immediately preceded Hobbes, and provided him with the context for many of his innovations.
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 | A Hobbes Dictionary (Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries) by Al P. Martinich
Buy new: $34.03 / Used from: $11.00 Helpful collection of brief articles on a wide range of topics in Hobbes.
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 | The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Buy new: $40.49 / Used from: $10.69 Excellent collection of essays by many of the leading Hobbes scholars working today.
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 | The Hunting of Leviathan: Seventeenth-Century Reactions to the Materialism and Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (Key Texts) by Samuel I. Mintz
Buy used from: $44.00 A wide-ranging survey of contemporary reactions to Hobbes's LEVIATHAN.
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 | Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Richard Tuck
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $4.83 A superb brief introduction to the thought of Hobbes.
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 | Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition by Jean Hampton
Buy new: $46.91 / Used from: $17.62 Of the many, many excellent books on Hobbes, this might be the best. Central to current debates on Hobbes. It is a deeply insightful study.
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 | Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory (Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy) by Gregory S. Kavka
Buy new: $61.00 / Used from: $22.55 Another indispensable study of Hobbes's thought, emphasizing its relevance to moral as well as political concerns.
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 | Logic of Leviathan (Oxford Scholarly Classics Series) by Gauthier
Buy used from: $774.99 An important study that is being reissued in a prohibitively expensive edition. Oxford, $60.00 for a paperback is inexcusable!
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 | Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes by Quentin Skinner
Buy new: $28.05 / Used from: $25.24 Skinner is the preeminent historian of political thought of his generation, and his studies on Hobbes are many and profound. Needless to say, this is a must read.
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 | Visions of Politics (Vol. III) (Volume 3) by Quentin Skinner
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $24.43 This volume of Skinner's collected papers brings together his various essays on Hobbes.
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 | Rationalism in Politics and other essays by Michael Oakeshott
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $6.67 Oakeshott is a conservative who actually gives conservatives a good name. He is also a profound Hobbes scholar, several essays on whom this volume contains.
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 | Aspects of Hobbes by Noel Malcolm
Buy new: $74.00 / Used from: $37.95 A recent collection of essays on Hobbes by an important Hobbes scholar.
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 | Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan: The Power of Mind over Matter by S. A. Lloyd
Buy new: $58.00 / Used from: $29.97 An important recent study on Hobbes.
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 | The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis (Phoenix Books) by Leo Strauss
Buy new: $17.10 / Used from: $15.81 Although Strauss exerts virtually no influence on mainstream political philosophy, his many impenetrable works have had considerable influence on the Neocons currently enjoying power under Bush.
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 | The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by Jerome B. Schneewind
Buy new: $33.75 / Used from: $24.94 Although Hobbes features as only one character in Schneewind's story, this is an extraordinarily informative volume on the formation of modern ethical and political thought.
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