The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes: Volume II: 1660-1679, Volume 1

Thomas Hobbes

OXFORD University Press, Sep 22, 1994 - Biography & Autobiography - 512 pages

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important figures in the history of European thought. Although interest in his life and work has grown enomrously in recent years, this is the first complete edition of his correspondence. The texts of the letters are richly supplemented withexplanatory notes and full biographical and bibliographical information. This landmark publication sheds new light in abundance on the intellectual life of a major thinker.

About the author

Noel Malcolm is the political columnist on the Daily Telegraph, and is well-known for his work on the current Balkan crisis. He was formerly Political Correspondent, and then Foreign editor, on the Spectator (1987-1991), which he joined after giving up his teaching fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. As well as working as one of the General Editors of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, he has contributed to many collective volumes, including the chapterHobbes and Spinoza in The Cambridge History of Political Thought (CUP, 1991), and is author of De Dominis (1560-1624): Venetian, Anglican, Ecumenist and Relapsed Heretic (Strickland and Scott, 1984).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes: Volume II: 1660-1679, Volume 1; Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes Series; Volume 2 of Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes; The Correspondence, Thomas Hobbes
• Author: Thomas Hobbes
• Editor: Noel Malcol
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: OXFORD University Press, 1994
• ISBN: 0198240996, 9780198240990
• Length: 512 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Philosophy / History & Surveys / General