کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1158988 1490062 2011 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Hobbes and Schmitt
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
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Hobbes and Schmitt
چکیده انگلیسی

Many commentators are unconvinced by Carl Schmitt's interpretation of Hobbes's political theory which, to their minds, remakes Hobbes in Schmitt's own authoritarian image. The argument advanced in this essay comprises three claims about Hobbes and Schmitt and the ways in which they are construed. The first claim is that certain commentators are bewitched by a picture of authority which biases their own claims about Hobbes, perhaps in ways that they may not fully appreciate. The second claim relates to Hobbes's individualism. On Schmitt's account, it was this individualism that opened the barely visible crack in the theoretical justification of the state through which it was worm-eaten by liberalism. This essay argues that Hobbes's individualism is not what Schmitt or his critics take it to be. The individualism that figures in Hobbes's discussions of covenant and conscience, pace Schmitt, is an illusion, albeit one that lies at the very heart of his conception of the state and animates his understanding of the relationship between protection and obedience that sustains it. The essay concludes with some remarks about the wider implications of the argument it advances.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: History of European Ideas - Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 160–167
نویسندگان
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