Creating the Commonwealth: Power, Projection and Religion in Hobbes’s Leviathan, with Amy Chandran

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The Social Contract Research Podcast

Social Contract Research Network

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Featuring seminars and interviews about the contemporary social contract: what it is, how and why it breaks down, and how it can be strengthened. Some episodes discuss academic and philosophical approaches to social contract theory; others discuss practical, social and political issues related to the social contract. This podcast is made possible by funding from the Australian Resesarch Council Future Fellowship project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". Project webpage: bit.ly/MonSCRN YouTube: bit.ly/YouTubeSCRN

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Creating the Commonwealth: Power, Projection and Religion in Hobbes’s Leviathan, with Amy Chandran

The Social Contract Research Podcast

1 hour 25 minutes 46 seconds

7 months ago

Creating the Commonwealth: Power, Projection and Religion in Hobbes’s Leviathan, with Amy Chandran

In this seminar Dr Amy Chandran addresses questions of power and religion on Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. The seminar is followed by a time of questions and discussion.

A video version of the seminar is available at https://youtu.be/ONemBZ7mmWY

The seminar took place over Zoom on 25 March 2025, and was hosted by Christopher Watkin (Monash University), as part of the project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". This seminar is an initiative of the Social Contract Research Network. To be notified when future seminars, conversations and interviews are uploaded, you can subscribe to te SCRN YouTube channel by clicking on this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7geWYdmGE3kIcJrw8Ebsw?sub_confirmation=1