# Leviathan

by [Thomas Hobbes](https://localbooks.app/authors/thomas-hobbes)

- Genres: [Politica](https://localbooks.app/genres/society/politics)
- Set in: [Parigi, Île-de-France, Francia](https://localbooks.app/places/fr/ile-de-france/paris); [Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito](https://localbooks.app/places/gb/england/london)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1651
- Pages: 508

## Description

Written in Paris exile while England fought its civil war, Leviathan imagines life without government as a war of all against all, nasty, brutish and short. Hobbes reasons from there that people must hand their power to a single sovereign, then spends half the book on the Church and Scripture.

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