The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity

""By exploring the distinct accounts of the state of nature in the writing of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, this book offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing debates of our time, showing how the state of nature idea provides a powerful lens through which to focus the complex forces shaping today's political and cultural landscape.""-- Provided by publisher.

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Christopher Watkin is the author of French Philosophy Today (2016), Michel Serres: Figures of Thought (2020) and the multi-award winning Biblical Critical Theory (2022). He convenes the Social Contract Research Network, and edits the 'Crosscurrents' series with Edinburgh University Press.