Spory o Thomasa Hobbesa: Lewiatan jako obiekt interpretacji, nadinterpretacji i dezinterpretacji
Disputes on Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan as the Subject of Interpretation, Over-interpretation and Misinterpretation

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt of reconstruction of different styles of reading Thomas Hobbes’s work. Autor diagnoses basic interpretative tensions and consequently, the interpretations that can be attributed to Leviathan. The main controversy of Hobbes’s thinking concern: 1. Whether he is a theorist of totalitarian regime or liberal? 2. Whether he is a theorist of social contract theory or – decisionistic orientated – the idea of sovereignty? 3. Whether he is a theorist of civil society or state of exception? 4. Finally, may Hobbes be perceived as war or peace theorist? After his reconstruction work, the autor returns to his own active reading of Hobbes’s Leviathan and tries to demonstrate system of tensions, which generate such ambivalence of interpretation.

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