Imagining Leviathan: Hobbes’s Aristotelian Notion of Fiction and the Problem of Representation

The European Legacy 27 (5):456-473 (2022)
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Hobbes is often portrayed as a thinker who anticipated modern constructivist ideas of fiction and representation according to which reality is simply a social construction. This article questions t...

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