From Acknowledgment to Market. Anthropology and Sociology of Power in Thomas Hobbes

Authors

  • Dimitri D'Andrea University of Florence

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-9618/9613

Keywords:

Hobbes, Power, Acknowledgment, Superiority, Pleasure of the Mind

Abstract

The object of this contribution is the reconstruction of the profound transformation of Hobbesian anthropology between the works of the 1940s and Leviathan and its effects on the conception of power. This change can be described as a de-psychologization of the pleasure of superiority, a neutralization of the psychological meaning of the superiority of power over other individuals. In Leviathan, the search for superiority is linked not to its ability to provide a good opinion of itself, but to that of achieving an exponential increase in own power through the possibility of asserting (in the most diverse forms) our own will within a social relationship.

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Published

2019-07-01

How to Cite

D’Andrea, D. (2019). From Acknowledgment to Market. Anthropology and Sociology of Power in Thomas Hobbes. Scienza & Politica. Per Una Storia Delle Dottrine, 31(60). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-9618/9613

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 60 (2019)

Section

Hobbes and Power. From Physics to Theology, from the Theory of Passions to Politics

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