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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Waldmann, Felix

Titel

John Locke as a Reader of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan: A New Manuscript

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of modern history, 2021-06, Vol.93 (2), p.245

Ort / Verlag

Chicago: University of Chicago, acting through its Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Waldmann examines John Locke as a reader of Thomas Hobbe's Leviathan. A previously unnoticed source bearing remarkable new evidence of Locke's interest in Leviathan. The evidence derives from the collection of manuscripts amassed by the historian Thomas Birch (1705-66), the author of The History of the Royal Society of London (1756-57). Within this collection are several documents that had belonged to Pierre Des Maizeaux (1672/3-1745), the Huguenot journalist and biographer. He reconstructs the composition of the memoir, in the context of Des Maizeaux's work on A Collection of Several Pieces, before contrasting the memoir's claims with the other surviving records of Locke's life from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.