Hobbesian Internationalism Anarchy, Authority and the Fate of Political Philosophy /

• Main Author: Lechner, Silviya (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Political Theory,
• Subjects: Political philosophy.; Political theory.; Globalization.; Political science.; Security, International.; Political Philosophy.; Political Theory.; Governance and Government.; International Security Studies.

This book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes's political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations. Its central thesis is that two concepts - anarchy and authority - constitute the core of Hobbes's political philosophy whose aim...

Table of Contents:

• PART I. Authority
• Chapter 1. Reading Hobbes as a Theorist of Anarchy and Authority
• Chapter 2. Authority and the Problem of Political Philosophy
• PART II. Anarchy
• Chapter 3. The State of Nature in The Elements
• Chapter 4. The State of Nature in De Cive
• Chapter 5. The State of Nature in Leviathan
• PART III. Hobbes's Theory of International Relations
• Chapter 6. Hobbes and the International Anarchy
• Chapter 7. Hobbesian Internationalism: Hobbes Meets Kant
• Chapter 8. Challenges: Globalisation and the Resurgence of Private Authority.