Hollywood, AmyJohnson, Danube2022-11-2420222022-09-152022-11Johnson, Danube. 2022. The Invention of Necessity: Hobbes on Preservation. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.29393722https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37373694This 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.application/pdfenHobbesPhilosophy of ReligionReligionThesis or Dissertation2022-11-240000-0002-3045-6768