Introduction to Mimesis in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan

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Introduction to Mimesis in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan

Mimesis as an expression of Human Self-Assertion 

Chapter 1: Between Renaissance Humanism and the early modern mechanical sciences 

Chapter 2: Mimesis as Ekphrasis

Chapter 3: Mimesis as the ‘imitation of action’: From the state of nature to the civil state 

Chapter 4:  Theatrum Mundi: Staging the covenant, the spectacle of sovereignty, and the mask of obligation 

Chapter 5: The Sovereign as a mortal god 

Conclusion: Mimesis the politics of the modern commonwealth

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