Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the most influential of all political philosophers. His book Leviathan virtually founded the study of the modern state. When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in ...

Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Fear: the History of a Political Idea, [2] which aims to ...

CALVIN AND HOBBES was a comic strip published by Universal Syndicate from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. Created by Bill Watterson (1958-present), the strip follows six-year-old Calvin and ...

Hobbes has been called, with some justice, the father of modern analytic philosophy, and he certainly ushered in modern political philosophy and social theory as we know it (National Portrait Gallery) ...

*Originally published on Jan. 13, 2025. Seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes has the reputation of being a bit of a curmudgeon. He is most famous for his bleak description of human nature — ...

Writer and psychologist Steven Pinker joins Matthew Parris to discuss the life of the great English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Noel Malcolm provides expert analysis. Show more Thomas Hobbes: the ...