Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Democratic Non-Sense
Hobbes as Democratic Anatomist
Summary of Contents

Part I: Democratic Critique

1. Hobbes on the Madness of Democracy
The Multitude and the People in The Elements of Law and De Cive
Democracy and Its Administration
Democracy and the Hubris of the Many
Eloquence and the Democratic Inflammation of the Passions
Madness and Multitude in the Democratic Assembly

2. Civil Science against Democratic Normativity
Freedom and Democratic Participation in The Elements of Law
The Disarticulation of Freedom and Participation in De Cive
Authorization and Representation in Leviathan
The Disappearance of Democracy

Part II: Democratic Conditions

3. Human Institution and Alterity
Ontological Materialism and the Limits of Natural Knowledge
Hobbesian Contingency
The Philosophical Anthropology of Sensation
Difference and the Passions
Creativity and Social-Historical Alterity

4. Hobbesian Equality-in-Difference
Equality as Natural Law
Natural Reason and the Equality of Intelligences
The Plurality of Reasons
Curiosity, Happiness, and the Limits of Practical Wisdom
The Practice of Equality

Part III: Democratic Ethics

5. Democracy and Natural Law
Hobbes's Critique and Reconstruction of the Idea of Natural Law
Politics and Antipolitics
Liberty and Natural Power
Natural Law and the True Liberty of the Subject
The Reappearance of Participatory Desire in Leviathan
Toward a Hobbesian Democracy

Summation
Notes
Bibliography
Index