国家理性と三十年戦争：知られざるホッブズの英訳パンフレット Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War : An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes

Malcolm, Noel

Oxford University Press（2007/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.／サイズ 2 b/w photos
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199215935
• DDC分類 192

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original.

Full Description

Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state".

Contents

Preface ; A Note on Dates and Transcriptions ; 1. Hobbes's Early Career ; 2. The Translation: Authorship, Date, and Style ; 3. The 'Secretissima instructio' Texts ; 4. The Distribution of the Altera secretissima instructio in England ; 5. Palatine Politics: Cavendish, Mansfield, and Hobbes ; 6. 'Reason of State' and Hobbes ; Hobbes's translation of Altera secretissima instructio ; Altera secretissima instructio ; List of Manuscripts ; Bibliography