The Sleeping Subject: On the Use and Abuse of Imagination in Hobbes’s Leviathan

• In Event: Leviathan, Fear and Demagoguery

Brief Overview

This paper explores the role of imagination in Hobbes’s Leviathan. It argues that the imagination is the most central mental faculty in Hobbes’s epistemology and psychology and, accordingly, that it plays a significant role in his political theory.

Author

• Avshalom M. Schwartz, Stanford University