Politics through the Iliad and the Odyssey

Hobbes writes Homer
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-66043-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 227 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 312 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey from Greek into English. Many have not considered enough the usefulness of these translations. In this book, Andrea Catanzaro analyses the political value of Hobbes’ translations of Homer’s works and exposes the existence of a link between the translations and the previous works of the Malmesbury philosopher. In doing so, he asks:

• What new information concerning Hobbes' political and philosophical thought can be rendered from mere translation?

• What new offerings can a man in his eighties at the time offer, having widely explained his political ideas in numerous famous essays and treatises?

• What new elements can be deduced in a text that was well-known in England and where there were better versions than the ones produced by Hobbes?

Andrea Catanzaro’s commentary and theoretical interpretation offers an incentive to study Hobbes lesser known works in the wider development of Western political philosophy and the history of political thought.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Catanzaro, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Hobbesian Homer: Between Amusement and Propaganda 2. The Hobbesian Translations of the Homeric poems: A Reading from the Political Perspective. Analogies and Differences 3. The Sovereign-Subject Dichotomy and the Problem of Monocratic Power between the Original Homeric Text and its Hobbesian Translation 4. Mortal and Immortal God. The Problem of the Genesis of the Political Power

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Catanzaro is Assistant Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Genova, Italy. His interests lie in Ancient Political Thought and its reception in the Western Political Literature of Early Modern and Modern Age.