This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes’s physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes’s legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora. The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's 'Leviathan' makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose major works, including Leviathan, were published in Latin on the Continent, and whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. Illustrations x Contributors xi Method of Citation xvii General Introduction 1 PATRICIA SPRINGBORG PART I: OF MAN 1 Thomas Hobbes's Visual Strategies 29 HORST BREDEKAMP 2 Leviathan, the Beast of Myth: Medusa, Dionysos, and the Riddle of Hobbes's Sovereign Monster 61 JOHAN TRALAU 3 Sense and Nonsense about Sense: Hobbes and the Aristotelians on Sense Perception and Imagination 82 CEES LEIJENHORST 4 Hobbes on the Natural Condition of Mankind 109 KINCH HOEKSTRA 5 Hobbes's Moral Philosophy 128 TOM SORELL PART II: OF COMMONWEALTH 6 Hobbes on Persons, Authors and Representatives 157 QUENTIN SKINNER 7 Hobbes on Glory and Civil Strife 181 GABRIELLA SLOMP 8 Hobbes and the Philosophical Sources of Liberalism 199 LUCIEN JAUME 9 Hobbes on the Right to Punish 217 DIETER H ING PART III: OF A CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH 10 Hobbes's Covenant Theology and Its Political Implications 243 FRANCK LESSAY 11 Omnipotence, Necessity and Sovereignty: Hobbes and the Absolute and Ordinary Powers of God and King 271 LUC FOISNEAU 12 Hobbes on Salvation 291 ROBERTO FARNETI 13 Hobbes and the Cause of Religious Toleration 309 EDWIN CURLEY PART IV: OF THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS 14 Hobbes's Critique of the Doctrine of Essences and Its Sources 337 GIANNI PAGANINI 15 Leviathan and Its Anglican Context 358 JOHANN SOMMERVILLE 16 The Bible and Protestantism in Leviathan 375 A.P. MARTINICH 17 The 1668 Appendix and Hobbes's Theological Project 392 GEORGE WRIGHT PART V: HOBBES'S RECEPTION 18 Hobbes and His Contemporaries 413 G.A.J. ROGERS 19 The Reception of Hobbes's Leviathan 441 JON PARKIN 20 Clarendon against Leviathan 460 PEREZ ZAGORIN 21 Silencing Thomas Hobbes: The Presbyterians and Leviathan 478 JEFFREY R. COLLINS Select Bibliography 501 Index 523