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Leviathan Contra Leviathan
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 76, Number 2, April 2015
- pp. 271-288
- 10.1353/jhi.2015.0008
- Article
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This article offers a comparative discussion of the two versions of Hobbes’s masterpiece—the 1651 English Leviathan and the 1668 Latin Leviathan, with a view to examining the significance of some of the main continuities and differences between the two works.