The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes: Volume II: 1660-1679: VII - Rilegato

Hobbes, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0198240996 ISBN 13: 9780198240990

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 1994

Riassunto

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important figures in the history of European thought. Although interest in his life and work has grown enomrously in recent years, this is the first complete edition of his correspondence. The texts of the letters are richly supplemented with explanatory notes and full biographical and bibliographical information. This landmark publication sheds new light in abundance on the intellectual life of a major thinker.

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These volumes are a tour de force of scholarly care and are preliminary to a full modern biography for which they whet the appetite ... Malcolm has maintained original spelling, erasures, alterations and punctuation and noted all signs of blots and blemishes. (Conal Condren, Paregon 15/1)

Another reason for reading these volumes is to delight in Noel Malcolm's scholarship. He provides areful transcriptions and sound translations (Hobbes wrote Latin as fluently as English): we expect as much. (London Review of Books)

the publishing project of which it is a component makes this correspondence valuable (The Spectator)

he is il miglior fabbro, to whom all of us who try to make sense of Hobbes's work should now defer. There is nothing in his new edition of Hobbes's correspondence ... which is solidly based on real scholarship ... Malcolm has equipped his edition with excellent notes to each letter, with first-rate translations of those not in English, and, above all, with 150 pages of brief lives of the contemporaries mentioned in the letters ... Putting the lives together in effect gives us a new biography of Hobbes himself ... one can feel nothing but gratitude for Malcolm's labours, and admiration at their outcome. Hobbes's philosophy will, for the first time, have a real editor; and also one day, we can now hope, a real author (The Times Literary Supplement)

superbly edited volumes ... The fluency and elegance of this translation is a fair sample of Noel Malcolm's skill. He has rounded off his Herculean labours with a biographical register that will be of value to all students of 17th-century culture and indispensable to anyone interested in Hobbes (The Independent)

superbly edited ... On the evidence of Noel Malcolm's editorship of these volumes his forthcoming biography should go as far as intelligence and sympathy and erudition can take us ... The fluency and elegance of this translation is a fair sample of Noel Malcolm's skill. He has rounded off his Herculean labours with a biographical register that will be of value to all sutdents of 17th-century culture and indispensable to anyone interested in Hobbes (The Independent)

Noel Malcolm rounds off these two beautifully produced volumes with succinct biographies of Hobbes's correspondents, written with the elegance, modesty and impeccable scholarship that characterise the edition as a whole ... impressive work of scholarship. (Sunday Telegraph)

These two volumes constitute the first collection of Hobbes's known correspondence, and their pulbication is therefore an important literary and philosophical event ... The letters ... open a window onto many aspects of the 17th-century world; anyone interested in history, literature, politics, philosophy and the history of science will find them utterly absorbing. The editor of these handsome volumes is a man whom Hobbes and his correspondents would have recognised as someone of their own stamp: a fine scholar who nevertheless engages with the world outside the academy ... Noel Malcolm ... has done an outstanding job of translating ... A reading of the letters and this elegantly written apparatus amounts to an education in the history of 17th century thought... Interest in Hobbes has been steadily reviving in recent years, and Malcolm's magnificent edition of his correspondence will help to spur that process. (A C Grayling, Financial Times)

what comes out on almost every page of Malcolm's editing is the intensity and intellectual ambition of his own engagement with Hobbes's thinking. ...Noel Malcolm's edition is a most impressive achievement. (Times Higher Educational Supplement)

will be an enduring monument to one of England's greatest philosophers. (The Observer)

L'autore:

Noel Malcolm is the political columnist on the Daily Telegraph, and is well-known for his work on the current Balkan crisis. He was formerly Political Correspondent, and then Foreign editor, on the Spectator (1987-1991), which he joined after giving up his teaching fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. As well as working as one of the General Editors of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, he has contributed to many collective volumes, including the chapter Hobbes and Spinoza in The Cambridge History of Political Thought (CUP, 1991), and is author of De Dominis (1560-1624): Venetian, Anglican, Ecumenist and Relapsed Heretic (Strickland & Scott, 1984).

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• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0198240996
• ISBN 13: 9780198240990
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 512
• Redattore: Malcolm Noel