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Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future

Red Menace

CHAPTER

Hobbs's Sovereignty and the State of Nature

Hobbs says sovereignty is not instated by god, but emerges from the state of nature as a solution to chaos and violence that we see there. In their text they say when they talk about exception, they mean like an exception from the normal rule of things. We can imagine the huge crisis of climate change in particular being precisely a sort of moment of exception where the hibernating leviathan takes over.

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