(Source: Brill)
Brill has published an English
translation of Fiammetta Palladini’s Samuel Pufendorf discepolo di Hobbes
(1990).
ABOUT THE BOOK
Fiammetta Palladini’s work is one
of the most important discussions of Pufendorf to appear in the latter part of
the twentieth century. It cut through the existing field of Pufendorf studies,
laying bare its inherited templates and tacit assumptions. Palladini was thus
able to peel back the ‘Grotian’ commentary in which the great thinker had been
shrouded, revealing a Pufendorf well-known in the 1680s—a formidable and
dangerous natural jurist and political theorist—but doubly obscured in the
1980s and still today, by a philosophical history that flies too high to see
him, and by a commentary literature that too often does not like what it sees.
David Saunders’ remarkable translation carries Palladini’s argument into
English with maximum fidelity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, TRANSLATOR AND
EDITOR
Fiammetta Palladini graduated in
Philosophy at the University of Rome – La Sapienza in 1965. Until her
retirement she was Primo ricercatore at the National Council for Research,
Rome, based in Berlin. She has published several books and many papers on Samuel
Pufendorf, on Jean Barbeyrac, and on 17th century moral and political
philosophy, including Discussioni seicentesche su Samuel Pufendorf(1978), Samuel
Pufendorf discepolo di Hobbes (1990), La Biblioteca di Samuel
Pufendorf (1999), and Die Berliner Huguenotten und der Fall
Barbeyrac (2011).
David Saunders is Emeritus Professor, Griffith University, Australia. An Oxford graduate with a 1973 Grenoble doctorate in Italian, his works include Anti-lawyers: Religion and the Critics of Law and State (1997), “The natural jurisprudence of Jean Barbeyrac: translation as an art of political adjustment” ( Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2003) and, co-edited with Ian Hunter, Samuel Pufendorf, The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (2003).
Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland. He was awarded his doctorate by Griffith University in 1987, and is the author of various works on natural law and the history of political thought. These includeRival Enlightenments (2001), The Secularisation of the Confessional State (2007), “Public Law and the Limits of Philosophy” ( Critical Inquiry, 2018) and, co-authored with David Saunders, “Bringing the State to England” ( History of Political Thought, 2003).
David Saunders is Emeritus Professor, Griffith University, Australia. An Oxford graduate with a 1973 Grenoble doctorate in Italian, his works include Anti-lawyers: Religion and the Critics of Law and State (1997), “The natural jurisprudence of Jean Barbeyrac: translation as an art of political adjustment” ( Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2003) and, co-edited with Ian Hunter, Samuel Pufendorf, The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (2003).
Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland. He was awarded his doctorate by Griffith University in 1987, and is the author of various works on natural law and the history of political thought. These includeRival Enlightenments (2001), The Secularisation of the Confessional State (2007), “Public Law and the Limits of Philosophy” ( Critical Inquiry, 2018) and, co-authored with David Saunders, “Bringing the State to England” ( History of Political Thought, 2003).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction (Ian Hunter)
A note from the translator (David Saunders)
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Pufendorf the Hobbesian
I. The theory of obligation
1. The hobbesian matrix of the theory
2. The re-thinking of the hobbesian principles
II. Nature of man and state of nature: the doctrine of sociality
1. Human nature
2. The state of nature
3. The hobbesian inheritance in the doctrines of sociality and the state of nature
4. Consequences of the force of Pufendorf’s anti-hobbesian arguments relating to the state of nature
Part Two: Why did Pufendorf pass for an anti-hobbesian?
I. Pufendorf’s place in the history of ethics according to Pufendorf
II. The role of Cumberland
1. The utilisation of Cumberland
2. Differences between the first and the second editions of the De iure
3. Cumberlandian paternity of these notions
4. Incompatibility of Cumberland’s system with that of Pufendorf
5. Other variants between the first and the second editions of the De iure
III. Anti-hobbesian aspects of the Elementa
1. The social nature of man in observation 3 of the Elementa
2. How this observation is utilised and transformed in the De iure
3. The origin of civil society in the Elementa and the De iure
4. Drawbacks of the utilisation of the Elementa in the De iure
5. What relation is there, according to Pufendorf, between law of nature and utility?
6. The evolution of Pufendorf’s thought
IV. The Barbeyrac factor Conclusion Leave-taking
A note from the translator (David Saunders)
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Pufendorf the Hobbesian
I. The theory of obligation
1. The hobbesian matrix of the theory
2. The re-thinking of the hobbesian principles
II. Nature of man and state of nature: the doctrine of sociality
1. Human nature
2. The state of nature
3. The hobbesian inheritance in the doctrines of sociality and the state of nature
4. Consequences of the force of Pufendorf’s anti-hobbesian arguments relating to the state of nature
Part Two: Why did Pufendorf pass for an anti-hobbesian?
I. Pufendorf’s place in the history of ethics according to Pufendorf
II. The role of Cumberland
1. The utilisation of Cumberland
2. Differences between the first and the second editions of the De iure
3. Cumberlandian paternity of these notions
4. Incompatibility of Cumberland’s system with that of Pufendorf
5. Other variants between the first and the second editions of the De iure
III. Anti-hobbesian aspects of the Elementa
1. The social nature of man in observation 3 of the Elementa
2. How this observation is utilised and transformed in the De iure
3. The origin of civil society in the Elementa and the De iure
4. Drawbacks of the utilisation of the Elementa in the De iure
5. What relation is there, according to Pufendorf, between law of nature and utility?
6. The evolution of Pufendorf’s thought
IV. The Barbeyrac factor Conclusion Leave-taking
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