Italian literature on Thomas Hobbes after the second World War

✍ Scribed by Domenico Felice

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 741 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-7411
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00138654

✦ Synopsis

This bibliographical survey includes, in chronological order, the following items:

(a) editions and translations of Hobbes's works; (b) both studies which are entirely dedicated to Hobbes's thought and those in which it is given an adequate importance, as well as university level manuals on the history of philosophy;

(c) notes, monographs and the most significant dictionary and encyclopedia items;

(d) Italian reviews of editions and translations of Hobbes's works and of papers entirely dedicated to him:

(e) lusty, foreign reviews of editions and translations of Hobbes's works published in Italy and of Italian studies dedicated to the author of Leviathan.

The chronological limits of this bibliographical survey are due both to editorial reasons and, above all, to the, need to distinguish between the studies which appeared before and after the second World War. Indeed, the numerous studies on Hobbes published in Italy at an earlier date, although of value [I am thinking, in particular, of the three chapters on Hobbes in the volume by Giacomo Laviosa,