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Collingwood's 'New Leviathan'
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Leviathan on a Leash: a political theory of state responsibility
The idea of state responsibility is central to modern politics and international relations. States are blamed for wars, punished with sanctions, held liable for debts and reparations, and bound by treaties. But why do we assign some responsibilities to whole states rather than to individual leaders …
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Slaying the Leviathan: Catholicism and the Rebirth of European Conservatism, 1920-1950
This dissertation argues that Catholic social thought was a central component of post-1945 West European reconstruction: it simultaneously provided a vocabulary for a post-fascist order, brought Catholics into coalition with liberals and socialists, and inspired much of the social policy of the new …
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The Death of The Leviathan: The Apocalypse of Modernity in Stefano D’Arrigo’s <i>Horcynus Orca</i>
… examining the novel’s depiction of the Leviathan as a symbol of chaos in the postwar era. By intertwining the biblical myth of the sea-monster with the Ulysses archetype, D’Arrigo’s narrative delves into the apocalyptic consequences of technological and ideological advancements following …
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Between the Peasants and the Leviathan: The Expropriation and Spontaneous Seizure of American-Owned Agricultural Property in Mexico, 1934-1941
"The Cardenas administration also played an integral role in ensuring that the bilateral conflict over land was settled peacefully by employing the diplomatic ""weapons of the weak."" Mexican officials avoided precipitating hard-line U.S. policies during the agrarian dispute by frequently promising …
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At the Margins of Modern Science: Leviathan and the Air-Pump as a Case Study for Meta-analysis of Contemporary Science and Technology Studies
… book, Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer's Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985), focusing on its reception and its standing in science and technology studies in the fifteen years since its publication. This work claims to be an "origins" story for the modern form of life that we now call the …
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Dryden and the Solution to Domination: Bonds of Love In the Conquest of Granada
… on a society uniting around an overpowering Leviathan whose power is based on fear and domination. Dryden's play, however, demonstrates a society that does away with the need for domination and, in its place, founds itself on bonds of love, just as modern psychoanalytical theorist Jessica …
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Three essays on the political economy of forensic science
… laboratories. Finally, chapter 4 explores the Leviathan model, and finds that governments can, and in the case of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 do, operate in ways that reduce tax revenues.
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Doubting Thomas: A Study of Thomas Hobbes's Post-Restoration Dialogues
… in his dialogues that his science as outlined in Leviathan and elsewhere is a realistic solution to the problems of the commonwealth. His knowledge of the English Civil War and the peace that followed may have been instrumental in reorienting Hobbes towards a more pragmatic and realistic …
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The Agency of Food Waste
… equals food’ with idea of the household as a leviathan body, this thesis suggests we need a form of posthuman digestion as an approach to food waste management.
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Reading Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus as a political treatise between Hobbes and Locke
… political treatises of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651) and John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1689). The three-part argument asks what is the state of nature, what is the natural man, and what is the just political system that emerges from these definitions. Simplicissimus …
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Civil War and the Government of Factions in Hobbes and Foucault
… governmental imperative, clearly discernible in Leviathan, to establish and preserve a rigorously individualized ('serialized') populace via the strict regulation of all associations and assemblies ('systems', in Hobbes's terminology). Ultimately, I connect Hobbes’s account of the governmental …
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The Changing Face of Fortune in Six English Versions of the Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
… described by Thomas Hobbes in his influential Leviathan (1651).</p>
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The Mouth of Hell in Medieval Art and Thought
… in the tenth century and association with Leviathan/draco and the lion, however, led to a movement from earlier anthropomorphic representations to strongly zoomorphic types. These found their way into visionary literature, affecting the torments of the damned, particularly those torments …
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Conversations about chaos and order: making the world in the Book of Job
Setting their sights on the splash thrown up by Leviathan in chapters 3 and 41, many interpreters have argued that the conflict between chaos and order, as embodied in combat mythology, is a theme in the Book of Job. Although I agree that issues related to chaos and order are central to the book, …
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Comparing Hobbes's Gratitude and Aristotle's Magnanimity
… and collectivity. In both On the Citizen and Leviathan, gratitude creates and sustains sociability with utility-based friendships. Gratitude is preserved best in a monarchy, because it secures covenants that rely on gratitude; it secures voluntary action; and is rooted in natural equality. …
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