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The leviathan is the great unity of the State. But how are unity, calmness, and security to be attained? Hobbes' answer is sovereignty, however the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods: Hobbes sees politics as a knowledge with the capacity of the same axiomatic strategy as geometry. Written during the turmoil of the British Civil Conflict, Leviathan was, in Hobbes' life time, publicly burnt and even condemned in Parliament among the causes of the fantastic Hearth of London in 1666. Its current charm lies not merely in its elevation of politics to a knowledge, but in its overriding concern for calmness, its systematic evaluation of power, and its own convincing apologia for the then-emergent market culture where we still live.
