Below are the questions that guided our conversations about Hobbes and Leviathan‘s impact on intellectual history. The associated readings that informed our answers are linked on each subpage. We invite you to engage the questions and our quoted responses in the comments of each post.
Question 1: What is Leviathan’s Revenge?
Question 2: How does Leviathan operate in the modern world?
Question 3: How does Hobbes use certain key words or phrases to play into his specific vision of power?
Question 4: What are the contingent origins of Hobbes’s Leviathan?
Question 5: What are the implications of gendering Leviathan?
Question 6: What is the role of Hobbesian thought in the structures of white supremacy?
Question 7: How has the reception of Hobbes’s Leviathan been influential?
Question 8: What is Hobbes’s role in international relations theory?
Question 9: What is the nature of power?
Question 10: How can the cyborg save us from Leviathan’s revenge?