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The Appearance of Power in Hobbes’ Leviathan

Scienza & Politica, 2019
Power is widely acknowledged as central to Thomas Hobbes’ political philosophy. There is ongoing debate over whether singular human beings or, instead, plural relationships, are the true source of power. After tracing the debate between the individualist
Meghan Robison
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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
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The Politics of Othering in the 'Happy Soul': Historicising Abjection in the Promise of Joy for Childhood and Play

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the politics of othering embedded in the taken‐for‐granted association of childhood, play, joy, and happiness. It explores how these notions are historically inscribed as forms of otherness tied to the affective normativity of joy.
Chushan Wu
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HOBBES E RELIGIÃO: ponderações sobre a relação entre ateísmo e política

Revista Interdisciplinar em Cultura e Sociedade, 2016
O presente estudo busca compreender o pensamento de Hobbes a partir de sua análise do problema religioso, embora seja o autor do Leviatã desqualificado como ateu, em alguns casos, em função das suas ideias político-religiosas.
Edmilson Menezes
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
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Theory anticipating praxis. The individual in Hobbes' political Science. [PDF]

, 2023
openIl presente lavoro di tesi esplora il pensiero politico di Hobbes, in particolare il tentativo di fondare un nuovo orizzonte epistemico entro il quale pensare la politica, operando un totale cambiamento di paradigma rispetto all’antichità.
FALÒ, ALBERTO
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La pena de muerte según vaca de Guzmán en su Suplemento al Enrique Wanton (1778)

Cuadernos Dieciochistas
El presente trabajo pretende indagar en el punto de vista que el escritor dieciochesco Vaca de Guzmán tenía sobre la pena de muerte. Para ello hemos utilizado como fuente principal su Suplemento al Enrique Wanton, la continuación de una novela italiana ...
Javier Muñoz de Morales Galiana
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An Argument for Minimalism about Action

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Minimalism is the view that the mark of action is object‐causation, rather than intentionality, voluntariness or goal‐directedness. Actions, on this view, are instances of objects causing change. Despite a recent surge of interest in the view, it is still seldom regarded as a serious alternative to orthodox theories of action, according to ...
Robin T. Bianchi
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Power and Potentia in Hobbes. The Mechanistic Perspective between Natural and Political Philosophy

Scienza & Politica, 2019
Through the elaboration of his political philosophy, Hobbes wishes to present himself as a representative of the new mechanistic and deterministic science of the seventeenth century, by applying Galilei’s method in politics and by refusing the ...
Carlo Altini
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