![]() ![]() Leviathan becomes the “divine messenger” par excellence, who functions as temporal minister and administrator of God’s will and government. Having its methodological point of departure especially in Giorgio Agamben, the article will develop the argument that Leviathan, in this regard, represents a political version of the Christian angelology. Not only is Hobbes’ decision to put forward a theory of a commonwealth that is both civil as well as ecclesiastical only a few years after the great religious Thirty Years’ War a bold one: Leviathan represents a new way of conceiving the relation between sovereign and citizen as it combines Christian political theory and aesthetics. In his Leviathan of 1651, Thomas Hobbes referred to it as the English. Rather, it is to discuss the kind of political theory the frontispiece represents. Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher of the late 16th and early 17th. The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version. ![]() The scope of the article is to discuss the form of power and authority symbolised on the frontispiece, and it is thus not an image analyses in the traditional sense. Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic - National Academies of Sciences. ![]() This article analyses the frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan with a focus on the relation between theology and politics as it is illustrated on the cover of this grand œuvre, and in particular on the figure of Leviathan himself. ![]()
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