Hobbes's Body Politics
From Life to Accountability in Leviathan
Offers a radical reading of the connection between embodied life and the art of making the Commonwealth in Thomas Hobbesâs Leviathan.
Reconstructing the conceptual link between life and accountability, Meghan Robison presents a new account of political founding and obligation in Hobbes. Beginning from an interpretation of life as an idiosyncratic bodily motion â a motion of limbs that begins within a living body â she shows how the Commonwealth is instituted through our selfâlegislated embodied practices of holding ourselves to mutually beneficial shared rules.
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From Life to Accountability in Leviathan
Offers a radical reading of the connection between embodied life and the art of making the Commonwealth in Thomas Hobbesâs Leviathan.
Reconstructing the conceptual link between life and accountability, Meghan Robison presents a new account of political founding and obligation in Hobbes. Beginning from an interpretation of life as an idiosyncratic bodily motion â a motion of limbs that begins within a living body â she shows how the Commonwealth is instituted through our selfâlegislated embodied practices of holding ourselves to mutually beneficial shared rules.
