The Language of "Political Science" in Early Modern Europe
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Abstract
When we think about the history of political science where should we begin? If Thomas Hobbes had his way, the answer would be with him. In the Epistle Dedicatory to his De Corpore (1655) he famously announced that "civil philosophy [philosophia civilis]" is "no older . . . than my own book De Cive." 1 Hobbes's propaganda had modest success: historians of modern political science, when they extend their view much before the eighteenth century, do often turn to him, even if usually to his Leviathan (1651). 2 Historians of early modern political thought, too, have been preoccupied with Hobbes's conception of civil science, against which they contrast the alternatives available to him. The present article also looks to the languages of political science before Hobbes, which, I argue, remain to be fully understood.
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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