Hobbes, Thomas,  1588-1679., <br/><br/>
Leviathan :  authoritative text, backgrounds, interpretations / 
Thomas Hobbes ; edited by Richard E. Flathman, Johns Hopkins University, David Johnston, Columbia University. 
 - First edition. 
 - x, 381 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Norton critical edition. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-378) and index. 
<br/><br/> Presents an annotated edition of Thomas Hobbes's seventeenth-century work of political philosophy in which he addresses the idea that obedience to authority, especially in the form of a large bureaucracy such as the political state, is a part of human nature; and includes background writings and critical essays. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393967980 (paperback) 9780393967982 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political science--Early works to 1800.<br/>State, The.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Politics  Philosophy. Great Britain. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC153  / .H65 1997