Man's life, lonely, poor, unpleasant, brutal and short 'Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we avoid descending into anarchy? Hobbes's case of a "common wealth" under a powerful sovereign, or "Leviathan," to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burned for sedition at the time it was published. But his penetrating work on political philosophy, now completely revised and with a new introduction for this edition, opened questions about the nature of politics and society that influenced governments around the world.
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