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Hobbes's Concept of Representation—II

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In chapter sixteen of the Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes develops a quite peculiar concept of representation, which he then applies in the political argument of the rest of the book. He maintains that a man is a representative insofar as he has been authorized, that is, given the right to act. The representative freely exercises this right, while the represented is bound by his action and responsible for it. That this definition is an incomplete account of what representation means, and in what ways it is incomplete, I have tried to show in a previous essay. It remains to demonstrate the relationship between this peculiar, one-sided definition, and the political argument in which it is applied.

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  • Pitkin, Hanna, 1964. "Hobbes's Concept of Representation—II," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 58(4), pages 902-918, December.
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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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