![]() ![]() He doesn’t give you so much commentary, just editorial apparatus. Is it running commentary on the differences between the two? It’s an incredible service to the scholarly community. So you get both texts, and he has this tremendous editorial apparatus that allows you to compare the similarities and differences between the two of them. Then the other two volumes are the text of the English Leviathan, face to face with Hobbes’s Latin translation of Leviathan. It gives you a sense of when it was written, how it was written, and so on. Noel Malcolm is one of the great Hobbes scholars of our time, and it sets Leviathan in context. The first volume is the introduction by Noel Malcolm. It’s in three volumes and very elaborate. It’s edited by Noel Malcolm, with an incredible level of scholarship. Yes, it’s a landmark in Hobbes scholarship. You’ve recommended a particular edition of Leviathan, the Oxford Clarendon edition edited by Noel Malcolm. Which edition of Leviathan should I read? Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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