T. Raylor

Philosophy and Rhetoric in Leviathan: Revisiting the Rapprochement Thesis

This paper is a contribution to a special issue of Hobbes Studies considering Quentin Skinner’s Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes at thirty. One of the central claims of Skinner’s book is that, having rejected humanist methods of composition based on the manipulation of rhetorical proofs for a metho...