Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION vii
4. FOREWORD xiii
5. 1 JOURNEY: TO THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN POLITICS 1
6. Part I INDIVIDUAL AND STATE
7. 2 GRACIÁN’S HERO AND HOBBES’S ANTIHERO 13
8. 3 THE HOBBESIAN IDEA OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 34
9. Part II LANGUAGE AND POWER [POUVOIR]
10. 4 THEORY OF LANGUAGE 51
11. 5 THE SEMIOLOGY OF POWER [POUVOIR] 72
12. Part III FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF POLITICS
13. 6 ON WAR 105
14. 7 ON LAW 123
15. 8 ON PROPERTY 146
16. 9 ON THE STATE 168
17. 10 ON THE RIGHT TO PUNISH 195
18. PART IV HOBBES ACCORDING TO TWO CONTEMPORARIES
19. 11 HOBBES AND FILMER: REGNUM PATRIMONIALE AND REGNUM INSTITUTIVUM 217
20. 12 HOBBES AND PASCAL: TWO MODELS OF THE THEORY OF POWER [POUVOIR] 234
21. CONCLUSION 247
22. BIBLIOGRAPHY 251
23. INDEX 257