RE Imagi（n）ing Leviathan

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Hobbes Studies Pub Date : 2018-03-23 DOI:10.1163/18750257-03101009

M. Vieira

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摘要

多年来，霍布斯的学者们在托马斯·霍布斯的创造性投入下，对亚伯拉罕·博塞为《利维坦》制作的图像进行了大量的解码。相反，本文关注的是对这幅图像的接受和重塑，这幅图像可以说是国家主义想象中最具标志性的图像。在这里，人们的注意力特别转向了两件当代艺术品，杜的《Some/One》（2005）和埃内斯托·内托的《Leviathan Thot》（2006）。这两件艺术品都在视觉上回忆起了霍布斯的作品，并重新提出了问题：它描绘了政治体以及构成政治体的元素之间的复杂关系。因此，它们为我们提供了一个奇特的视角，让我们重新接触霍布斯的作品和使其不朽的政治美学。

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RE-Imagi(n)ing Leviathan

Over the years great care has been lavished by scholars of Hobbes on decoding the image produced for Leviathan by Abraham Bosse with the creative input of Thomas Hobbes. This article focusses instead on the reception and remaking of this image, arguably the most iconic image in the statist imaginary. Attention turns here, in particular, to two contemporary artworks, Do Ho Suh’s Some/One (2005) and Ernesto Neto’s Leviathan Thot (2006). Both of these artworks visually recall and re-problematize Hobbes’s frontispiece: its depiction of the political body and of the complex relationships between the elements comprising it. They therefore offer us a curious perspective from which to re-engage with Hobbes’s work and the political aesthetics that has immortalized it.

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Hobbes Studies PHILOSOPHY-

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0.70

自引率

33.30%

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期刊介绍： Hobbes Studies is an international peer reviewed scholarly journal. Its interests are twofold; first, in publishing research about the philosophical, political, historical, literary, and scientific matters related to Thomas Hobbes"s own thought, at the beginning of the modern state and the rise of science, and also in a comparison of his views to other important thinkers; second, because of Hobbes"s enduring influence in stimulating social and political theory, the journal is interested in publishing such discussions. Articles and occasional book reviews are peer reviewed. The International Hobbes Association is associated with the journal but submissions are open.