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This is a book review of Hobbes's Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy by Devin Stauffer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).

Thomas Hobbes's Behemoth must be read as a dialogue if we are to understand that there are two audiences being addressed. There is the immediate audience within the dialogue, that is, the younger interlocutor. He is the audience of the history of the English Civil War as it is presented to him; he is the audience of the narrative. But there is also the audience of the dialogue as a whole, the audience of the meta-narrative. Once we understand this twofold structure we can begin to see that Behemoth is Hobbes's example of how to educate people in their duties through the use of history. Thus, Behemoth is not his history of the war, nor is it an attempt to understand the war through the prism of Hobbesean theory. Instead, it is an education for the reader in how to make his or her interlocutors into good subjects. ; Ce želimo razumeti, da se Thomas Hobbes v Behemothu naslavlja na dvoje občinstev, moramo to delo brati kot dialog. Neposredni naslovljenec v dialogu je mlajši sogovornik. Ta je občinstvo pripovedi, zgodovine angleške državljanske vojne, ki mu je predstavljena. Imamo pa tudi občinstvo dialoga kot takega, občinstvo metanaracije. Brž ko razumemo to dvojno strukturo, se nam Behemoth pokaže kot Hobbesov zgled za poučevanje ljudi o njihovih dolžnostih s pomočjo zgodovine. Behemoth torej ni zgodovina vojne, niti ni poskus razumeti tisto vojno skozi prizmo Hobbesove teorije, pač pa je poučevanje bralca ali bralke o tem, kako lahko sogovornika oblikujeta v dobrega podložnika.

This volume explores the place of aristocratic virtues and values in the modern democratic world. Essays examine aristocratic priorities and interpretations of historic and contemporary aristocratic assemblies as well as critiques of liberal or bourgeois virtues, democratic equality, and democratic institutions.