About the Author

Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) was Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was the author of many works, including On History and Other Essays and Hobbes on Civil Association, both published by Liberty Fund.

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This new collection presents Michael Oakeshott's four principal essays on Hobbes and the nature of civil association as it pertains to ordered liberty. The foreword by Paul Franco remarks the place of these essays within Oakeshott's entire corpus. The essays are "Introduction to Leviathan" (1946) "The Moral Life in the Writings of Thomas Hobbes" (1960) "Dr. Leo Strauss on Hobbes" (1937) "Leviathan: A Myth" (1947)