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“jurgen overhoff”

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  • Hobbes's Theory of Will

    Ideological Reasons and Historical Circumstances

    by Jurgen Overhoff ...
    In Hobbes's Theory of the Will, Jurgen Overhoff reveals the religious, ethical, and political consequences of Thomas Hobbes's doctrine of volition. The author gracefully describes how Hobbes's thought was governed by assumptions based firmly in Galilean natural philosophy and orthodox Protestant theology. Overhoff also demonstrates how his subject used materialist eschatology and an absolutist ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • George Washington and Frederick the Great

    Parallel Lives

    by Jürgen Overhoff ...
    Translated by Patrick Baker ...
    How Frederick the Great and George Washington embody the competition between liberal democracy and authoritarianismBoth Frederick the Great and George Washington saw themselves as model rulers exemplifying different modes of enlightened governance. Frederick, absolute ruler of Prussia, styled himself as the embodiment of “enlightenment from above”; Washington, as the first president of the United ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World

    by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff, Jerry Weinberger, Lorraine Smith Pangle, Michael Zuckerman ...
    This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific treatises that made his name amongst the brightest minds of Europe, newspaper articles, satires, and of ... Read more

    $49.39 USD