Talking Wolves : Thomas Hobbes on the Language of Politics and the Politics of Language

<em>Talking Wolves</em> advances an analysis of Hobbes which takes language seriously (as seriously as Hobbes took it). It presents a reading of Hobbess view of society at large, and political society in particular, through a comprehensive discussion based on, and intimately linked to, his philosophy of language. This philosophy, in turn, is seen in a new light as being a pragmatic theory of language in use, language in action.