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Hobbes's Concept of Representation—I

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It is not customary to regard Thomas Hobbes as a theorist particularly concerned with representation. Hardly any of the traditional commentaries on his thought even acknowledge that he mentions the term; and the index to Molesworth's standard edition of Hobbes's English works contains no reference to it. But the fact is that representation plays a central role in the Leviathan; and Hobbes's analysis of the concept is among the most serious, systematic and challenging in the history of political philosophy. It is an analysis both temptingly plausible and, as I hope to show, peculiarly wrong. And the ways in which it is wrong are intimately related to what is most characteristic and peculiar in the Hobbesian political argument.

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  • Pitkin, Hanna, 1964. "Hobbes's Concept of Representation—I," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 58(2), pages 328-340, June.
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    1. Candan Turkkan, 2020. "The Right to Self-Preservation? Corporeal Considerations in the Leviathan," Bogazici Journal, Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, Bogazici University, Department of Economics, vol. 34(2), pages 135-150.

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