Publication: The Invention of Necessity: Hobbes on Preservation
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2022-09-15
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Johnson, Danube. 2022. The Invention of Necessity: Hobbes on Preservation. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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This dissertation is a study of Hobbes’s natural philosophy in the context of 17th century post-Reformation England, focusing in particular on the connections between his theory of social contract and colonial expansion. In what follows I contend that Hobbes’s theory of social contract is also a theory of colonial domination and management, and that this simultaneity is particularly intelligible when due attention is given to Hobbes’s negotiations with and naturalizations of certain theological principles, especially salvation.
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Hobbes, Philosophy of Religion, Religion
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