Aspects of Hobbes

These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of the world's leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not only succinct introductions to Hobbes's life and thought, but also path-breaking studies of many different aspects of his political philosophy, his scientific and religioustheories, his relations with his contemporaries, the sources of his ideas, the printing history of his works, and his influence on European thought.