Thomas Hobbes 
Leviathan (International Student Edition) 

About David Johnston’s edition

Carefully and faithfully edited by “one of our most astute commentators on Hobbes’s political theory” (
Jeremy Waldron), the Norton Library edition of
Leviathan features the complete text of the work, with spelling and punctuation thoughtfully modernized and archaic terms helpfully annotated throughout. An introduction by Kinch Hoekstra situates the work in its historical and intellectual context to prepare students for their first serious encounter with “the greatest single work of political thought in the English language” (
John
Rawls).

About the author

Kinch Hoekstra is the Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science and Law, and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy and Classics, at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he was a Fellow in Philosophy and Classics at Balliol College. He coedited The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes and is coediting Hobbes’s Thucydides for The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes. A selection of his work can be found at https://berkeley.academia.edu/Kinch Hoekstra.