Leon Craig's The Platonian Leviathan is chiefly a study of Thomas Hobbes's 17th-century treatise Leviathan, although Craig supplements his argument with discussions of Plato's Republic, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and a brief essay on contemporary life. Melville supplies the book's title and Hobbes the thought behind it, while Craig, a professor emeritus of politics at the University of Alberta, seeks to clarify what Hobbes intended.
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