• Mortal gods : science, politics, and the humanist ambitions of ThomasHobbes
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: science, politics, and the humanist ambitions of ThomasHobbes
    [NT 47261] Author: MillerTed H., 1965-
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: University Park, Pa.
    [NT 47263] Published: Pennsylvania State University Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: c2011
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)ill. :
    [NT 51399] Personal Subject: Hobbes - Thomas -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780271052335/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-331) and index
    [NT 51398] Summary: "Argues against the accepted idea that Thomas Hobbes turned away from humanism to pursue the scientific study of politics. ReconceptualizesHobbes's thought within early modern humanist pedagogyand the court culture of the Stuart regimes"--Provided by publisher
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780271052335electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780271048918hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0271048913hbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: The humanist face of Hobbes's mathematics, part 1 -- Constraints that enable the imitation ofGod -- King of the children of pride : the imitation of God in context -- Architectonic ambitions :mathematics and the demotion of physics -- Eloquence and the audience thesis -- All other doctrinesexploded : Hobbes, history, and the struggle over teaching-- The humanist face of Hobbes's mathematics, part 2 : Leviathan and the making of a masque-text -- Appendix. Who is a geometer?
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