Is the Modern State Coming to an End?

Hobbes was among many other things a mathematician and the book is inspired in part by a kind of mathematical, geometrical understanding of politics. He'd been very sick, not that long before he nearly died and there is a view that he might still have had what used to be called brain fever. Leviathan reads like the work of someone who was a bit feverish. The language in it is extraordinary, it's metaphorical and allegorical and analogical. This is a book that is both about Euclidean geometry and about biblical imagery. Like I said, there really isn't anything like it. But another reason to start with this book and with Hobbes is that it is