01728 a2200421 4500 0367331055 20250317100414.0 250312042021GB eng 9780367331054 Taylor & Francis GBP 34.99 BB 01 eng QDH thema QDTS thema QDTQ thema CBX thema CFB thema DSA thema DSB thema JPF thema HPC bic HPS bic HPQ bic CBX bic CFB bic DSA bic DSBD bic JPF bic PHI000000 bisac BUS000000 bisac 320.1092 bisac Raia Prokhovnik Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes' Leviathan 1 Oxford Routledge 20210301 268 p Originally published in 1991. This book explicitly examines rhetoric as the art of persuasion in the practical world, and as in the expression of thinking in the language a speaker uses. It presents Leviathan in terms of the philosophical character of the work considered through Hobbes’ use of language to express and organise his thought. Throughout, the nature of the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy is discussed and the problems of language in philosophical understanding. The book is concerned with Hobbes’ political philosophy and his views on figurative language, interest in literary theory and particularly his allegory. A special feature is the chapter on engraved title pages in Leviathan and other texts of the era. 2664 2664