Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity : A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Bishop Bramhall, the 'Great Arminian', 'Irish Canterbury' and 'Most Unsound Man in Ireland', 1633?41; 2. Bishop Bramhall, the Earl of Newcastle, Thomas Hobbes and the first English Civil War; 3. Hobbes's flight to France, De Cive and the beginning of the quarrel with Bramhall, summer 1645; 4. An epistolary skirmish, 1645?6: Bramhall, 'Discourse', Hobbes, 'Treatise' and Bramhall, 'Vindication'; 5. Bramhall and the Royalist schemes of 1646?50; 6. Hobbes and Leviathan among the exiles, 1646?51; 7. The public quarrel: Hobbes, Of Liberty and Necessity, 1654, Bramhall, Defence of True Liberty, 1655 and Hobbes, Questions concerning Necessity, Liberty and Chance, 1656; 8. Castigations of Hobbes's Animadversions and The Catching of Leviathan, 1657?8: Hobbes as Leviathan of Leviathans; 9. The restoration and death of Bramhall and Hobbes's last word, 1668; Conclusion.