Plague and the Leviathan
In: Hobbes studies, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 221-233
ISSN: 1875-0257
Abstract
Building on a number of recent studies that have turned to Hobbes in light of covid-19, I explore the context of Hobbes' own encounters with plague while at Oxford, along with efforts to mitigate plague by the regime of James I. I then explore what role his encounters with plague may have played as he wrote his philosophical masterpiece, Leviathan.