Der Behemoth
Bredekamp, Horst Behemoth and Leviathan. Rebellion and governmental order, state of civil war and sovereign statesperson. Since Thomas Hobbes' publication of »Leviathan«, political theory has not been able to detach itself from these two biblical monsters whose images capture the modern political spirit. Horst Bredekamp's history of the »Prefiguration of the Modern State« and its mutations marks the onset of more recent interpretations (Thomas Hobbes. Der Levi...