Michael Oakeshott, Hobbes on Civil Association. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1975.

This book consists of Oakeshott’s four principal essays on Hobbes and on the nature of civil association as it pertains to ordered liberty. The essays are:

• “Introduction to Leviathan” (1946)
• “The Moral Life in the Writings of Thomas Hobbes” (1960)
• “Dr. Leo Strauss on Hobbes” (1937)
• “Leviathan: A Myth” (1947)

“The themes Oakeshott stresses in his interpretation of Hobbes are . . . skepticism about the role of reason in politics, allegiance to the morality of individuality as opposed to any sort of collectivism, and the principle of a noninstrumental, nonpurposive mode of political association, namely, civil association.” Paul Franco, forward to Hobbes on Civil Association.

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