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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Hobbs

420 pages first pub 1651 (view editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war-situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("...

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