Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory |
Editors | Bryan S. Turner, Chang Kyung-Sup, Cynthia F. Epstein, Peter Kivisto, J. Michael Ryan, William Outhwaite |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
ISBN (Print) | 9781118430873 |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2017 |
Abstract
Many readers see in Hobbes’s writings the underpinning for orientations as diverse as absolutism in domestic politics, realism in international relations, liberalism in economics, and legal positivism in jurisprudence; the accuracy of such claims forms the basis for rich debate.