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1. Introduction: Hobbes's career in philosophy; 2. Hobbes and the studiahumanitatis; 3. Hobbes's changing conception of a civil science; 4. Hobbes onrhetoric and the construction of morality; 5. Hobbes and the purelyartificial person of the state; 6. Hobbes on the proper signification ofliberty; 7. Hobbes and the classical theory of laughter; 8. History andideology in the English revolution; 9. The context of Hobbes's theory ofpolitical obligation; 10. Conquest and consent: Hobbes and the engagementcontroversy; 11. Hobbes and his disciples in France and England; 12. Hobbesand the politics of the early Royal Society; 13. Hobbes's last word onpolitics.