Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan: Editorial Introduction + The English and Latin Texts (Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes) - Tapa blanda

These volumes do not only provide the ultimate edition of Hobbess masterpiece, but without any doubt they also point into numerous directions for future research. (Peter Schröder, International Journal of Constitutional Law)

This is a scrupulous edition, but the dominant impression is of its generosity, for Dr Malcolm seems to have thought of everything which the reader could need in order to understand this rich text. (Paul Hammond, The Seventeenth Century)

Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan is one of the most important philosophical texts in the English language, and one of the most influential works of political philosophy ever written. This is the first critical edition based on a full study of the manuscript and printing history. It is also the first edition to place the English text side by side with Hobbes's later Latin version of it, complete with a set of notes in which the many passages that differ in the Latin are translated into English. So, for the first time, readers of Leviathan will be able to see clearly every stage of the development of the text. Both texts are fully annotated with explanatory notes. The editor's Introduction, which takes up the whole of the first volume, gives a path-breaking account of the work's context, sources, and textual history. This definitive edition will set the study of Hobbes's masterwork on a new basis.
This three volume paperback set is also available in component parts: The Editorial Introduction (Volume 1), ISBN 978-0-19-870909-1, and The English and Latin Texts (Volumes 2 and 3), ISBN 978-0-19-872396-7. The hardback three-volume set is also available, ISBN 978-0-19-960262-9