The famous frontispiece to the first edition of Leviathan (1651) was designed by the engraver Abraham Bosse in close collaboration with Hobbes. The figure of Sovereignty, the massive composite body ...

The body politic has human parts: head, limbs, heart. That body has an abundance of these in the case of the royal giant that brandishes sword and scepter on the frontispiece of Leviathan of Thomas ...

The coronavirus has propelled Thomas Hobbes, one of philosophy’s leading bogeymen, back into the spotlight. It’s unsurprising that two conservative publications in the U.S., the National Review and ...