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 ...

When it comes to 17th-century English philosophers, Thomas Hobbes holds a lot of appeal. He wrote with vivid prose, rich argument and a stinging wit. He was also ahead of his time. Nearly 400 years ...

No man can have in his mind a conception of the future, for the future is not yet. But of our conceptions of the past, we make a future; or rather, call past, future relatively. Thus after a man hath ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author A.P. Martinich explains Thomas Hobbes' political philosophy. Author A.P. Martinich explains Thomas Hobbes' political philosophy. Explain ...

Thomas Hobbes professed the most surprising beliefs about God. God is corporeal he declares. He says this while calmly drawing attention to the first of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company has launched some pretty outlandish plays in the past year or so, but few can top this one by the U.S. maverick showman Adriano Shaplin. His ostensible subject is the ...