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John Plamenatz, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau , ed. M. Philp and Z.A. Pelczynski, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 320 pp., ISBN: 9780199645060, hardback $ 75 / £ 42. (also available as an ebook).

John Plamenatz, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau , ed. M. Philp and Z.A. Pelczynski, (Oxford: Oxford... In 1975 John Plamenatz was due to deliver a series of lectures at the University of Cambridge. Although he had completed and corrected the lectures, he was prevented from presenting them by two strokes, the second of which proved fatal. The eventual publication of these lectures on Niccoló Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau – the best part of forty years after they were originally conceived – is certainly to be welcomed, for it provides us with Plamenatz’s most developed thoughts on each of these great thinkers, and, in many cases, reveals that he had considerably revised important aspects of his interpretations since the original publication of his most famous work, Man and Society , in 1963. 1 There are at least two ways we might be tempted to read Plamenatz’s lectures, both of which may be profitably pursued. The first is to read them historically and to seek to understand the changes to Plamenatz’s interpretations between his earliest writings on each of these thinkers (some of which predate Man and Society ) and the early 1970s. This is not only of interest with respect to the development of Plamenatz’s own ideas, but, moreover, because it supplies a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hobbes Studies Brill

John Plamenatz, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau , ed. M. Philp and Z.A. Pelczynski, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 320 pp., ISBN: 9780199645060, hardback $ 75 / £ 42. (also available as an ebook).

Hobbes Studies , Volume 26 (2): 190 – Jan 1, 2013

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Brill
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© 2013 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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0921-5891
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1875-0257
DOI
10.1163/18750257-02602008
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In 1975 John Plamenatz was due to deliver a series of lectures at the University of Cambridge. Although he had completed and corrected the lectures, he was prevented from presenting them by two strokes, the second of which proved fatal. The eventual publication of these lectures on Niccoló Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau – the best part of forty years after they were originally conceived – is certainly to be welcomed, for it provides us with Plamenatz’s most developed thoughts on each of these great thinkers, and, in many cases, reveals that he had considerably revised important aspects of his interpretations since the original publication of his most famous work, Man and Society , in 1963. 1 There are at least two ways we might be tempted to read Plamenatz’s lectures, both of which may be profitably pursued. The first is to read them historically and to seek to understand the changes to Plamenatz’s interpretations between his earliest writings on each of these thinkers (some of which predate Man and Society ) and the early 1970s. This is not only of interest with respect to the development of Plamenatz’s own ideas, but, moreover, because it supplies a

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