ARTICLE: Amy CHANDRAN, "Hobbes in France, Gallican Histories, and Leviathan's Supreme Pastor" (Modern Intellectual History First View) (OPEN ACCESS)

 

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Abstract:

Few of the recent treatments exploring Leviathan's dramatic expansion of ecclesiological considerations have delved into the political circumstances that furnished Hobbes's immediate Parisian surroundings, as he penned the work during the 1640s. This paper examines French ecclesial debates that were triggered by the publication of a polemical collection of texts narrating the “rights and liberties of the Gallican church.” Many of the tracts included had been written during the accession crisis of the late sixteenth century, and advocated a sacralized view of kingship in order to exclude papal jurisdictional claims in France. This paper argues that innovations in Leviathan's sacred history mirror tropes employed by Gallican writers, so that Hobbes can be seen as adopting a parallel strategy in establishing Leviathan's Supreme Pastor. This explication suggests that Hobbes composed Leviathan to appropriate, rather than eliminate, claims associated with “spiritual” power for the civil sovereign, as critical to the exercise of sovereignty.

Read the full article here: DOI 10.1017/S1479244322000099. 

BOOK : Yves Charles ZARKA (dir), Liang PANG (dir), Hobbes. Le pouvoir entre domination et résistance, (Vrin, 2022), ISBN : 978-2-7116-3053-0, pp.152, 18€

 

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A propos de l'ouvrage : 

La tension entre domination et résistance est au centre de la notion du pouvoir politique chez Hobbes. Or, celui-ci opère une mutation dans l’histoire de ces deux notions. La mutation intervenue dans la figure du gouvernant s’opère avec la notion de souveraineté, c’est-à-dire avec la mise en place d’un concept uniquement politique du pouvoir, la rupture corrélative intervenue dans la notion résistance consiste dans le passage du droit de résistance collectif du peuple au tyran à la notion de droit de résistance individuel face au pouvoir quel qu’il soit. Sont abordés ensuite, les lieux de tension entre domination et résistance : la rébellion, la guerre civile, le droit de punir, le statut de la liberté et la guerre interétatique. Enfin, on trouvera une analyse de la lecture critique que Foucault fait de Hobbes.

A propos des directeurs de l'ouvrage 

Yves Charles ZARKA est professeur à l'université de la Sorbonne, il enseigne également l'université de Pékin et aux universités de Ca' Foscari à Venise et  La Sapienza à Rome.

Liang PANG a soutenu une thèse en 2020, intitulée : " Le concept de souveraineté à l'époque moderne : autonomie et hétéronomie chez Hobbes et Rousseau" 

La liste des contributeurs : 

J. DUNN, M. DOS SANTOS MATTHES DA COSTA, X. GENDRE, J. GRIFFITH, F. PIROLA, V. SORRENTINO.

BOOK : Odile TOURNEUX, La Souveraineté à l’ère du néolibéralisme, (Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2022), ISBN : 978-2-4061-2611-9, pp.568, 49€

 

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A propos de l'ouvrage : 

Contre l’idée d’une incompatibilité de la souveraineté et du néolibéralisme, cet ouvrage cherche à se rendre attentif aux traitements qui sont réservés à la notion de puissance souveraine, aussi bien dans les œuvres théoriques que dans les politiques publiques européennes contemporaines.

A propos de l'auteur : 

Odile Tourneux a soutenu sa thèse en 2019, l'ouvrage en est la version publiée. 

Table des matières : 

Introduction, p7-31

Première partie : Le récit d'un déclin 

Introduction de la première partie, p35 

Qu’est-ce que le néolibéralisme ? p37-87

Un concept politique désuet ? p89-128

Lectures contemporaines de l’histoire de la souveraineté
Essai de typologie, p129-170

Deuxième partie : Un concept paradoxal 

Introduction de la deuxième partie, p173 

Hobbes, Rousseau, Sieyès et le paradoxe de la représentation, p175-231

Bodin ou le paradoxe de la liberté, p233-271

Les Federalist Papers
L’exercice du gouvernement ou le paradoxe de l’un et du multiple, p273-322

Troisième partie : Conceptions néolibérales de la souveraineté 

Introduction de la troisième partie, p325

Théorie du gouvernement et institutions européennes
Dialogue entre Walter Lippmann et Jean Monnet, p327-388

La souveraineté du consommateur chez Wilhelm Röpke, p389-436

La souveraineté individuelle chez les Libertariens, p437-480

Gouvernance mondiale et souveraineté individuelle, p481-515

Conclusion, p517-528

Annexe
Retranscription de l’entretien téléphonique réalisé avec M. Nader Mousavizadeh (02.10.2017), p529-534

Bibliographie, p535-560

Index nominum, p561-562

Table des illustrations, p563

Table des matières, p565-568

BOOK: Ekaterina YAHYAOUI KRIVENKO, Space and Fates of International Law - Between Leibniz and Hobbes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). ISBN 9781108488754, 85.00 GBP

 

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CUP is publishing a new book on the influence exercised by the concept of space on the emergence and continuing operation of international law.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The book offers the first analysis of the influence exercised by the concept of space on the emergence and continuing operation of international law. By adopting a historical perspective and analysing work of two central early modern thinkers – Leibniz and Hobbes – it offers a significant addition to a limited range of resources on early modern history of international law. The book traces links between concepts of space, universality, human cognition, law, and international law in these two early modern thinkers in a comparative fashion. Through this analysis, the book demonstrates the dependency of the contemporary international law on the Hobbesian concept of space. Although some Leibnizian elements continue to operate, they are distorted. This continuing operation of Leibnizian elements is explained by the inability of international law, which is based on the Hobbesian concept of space, to ensure universality of its normative foundation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, National University of Ireland, Galway

Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko is the current Chair of the Interest Group on International Legal Theory and Philosophy of the European Society of International Law. In 2016 she received NUI Galway President's award for research excellence. Her work critically examines theoretical underpinnings of international law and human rights.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Science and Law in the Seventeenth Century

3. Space

4. The Idea of Universals and Human Cognition

4. Law

5. Intermezzo

6. Space(s) of International Law

7. Conclusions and Way Forward

 

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BOOK: "Before Anarchy: Hobbes and His Critics in Modern International Thought" by Theodore Christov (2016)

Before Anarchy: Hobbes and His Critics in Modern International Thought, by Theodore Christov

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How did the 'Hobbesian state of nature' and the 'discourse of anarchy' - separated by three centuries - come to be seen as virtually synonymous? Before Anarchy offers a novel account of Hobbes's interpersonal and international state of nature and rejects two dominant views. In one, international relations is a warlike Hobbesian anarchy, and in the other, state sovereignty eradicates the state of nature. In combining the contextualist method in the history of political thought and the historiographical method in international relations theory, Before Anarchy traces Hobbes's analogy between natural men and sovereign states and its reception by Pufendorf, Rousseau and Vattel in showing their intellectual convergence with Hobbes. Far from defending a 'realist' international theory, the leading political thinkers of early modernity were precursors of the most enlightened liberal theory of international society today. By demolishing twentieth-century anachronisms, Before Anarchy bridges the divide between political theory, international relations and intellectual history.

• Bridges political theory, international relations and intellectual history, therefore it will appeal to scholars who work in hybrid disciplines
• Readers can trace all various uses of the state of nature as group-based rather than individualistic because of the book's new reading of the Hobbesian state of nature
• Challenges the rigid opposition between nature and sovereignty

PODCAST: BBCFOUR "A History of Ideas" on Habeas Corpus, Civil Disobedience and Thomas Aquinas

 

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BBCFour's podcast "A History of Ideas" brought an item on the history of Habeas Corpus, with Prof. Michael Lobban (LSE) and Alice Taylor (King's College London).

Previous episode concern Thomas Hobbes and civil disobedience (with David Wilson, Birminghan, click here), Thomas Aquinas (Giles Fraser, St Paul's Institute, click here)...

Click here for the full episode.