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David Johnston

David Johnston teaches political philosophy at Columbia University, where he has served as Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy. He is the author of A Brief History of JusticeThe Idea of a Liberal Theory, and The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, and is the editor of a collection of readings entitled Equality and coeditor of Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict.

David Johnston

David Johnston teaches political philosophy at Columbia University, where he has served as Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy. He is the author of A Brief History of JusticeThe Idea of a Liberal Theory, and The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, and is the editor of a collection of readings entitled Equality and coeditor of Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict.

Books by David Johnston

  • Leviathan: A Norton Critical Edition

    Thomas Hobbes, David Johnston

    Second Edition, Paperback, 2020

  • Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbes, David Johnston, Kinch Hoekstra

    Paperback, 2021

    About David Johnston’s edition.
  • Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbes, David Johnston, Kinch Hoekstra

    E Book, 2021

    About David Johnston’s edition
  • Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbes, David Johnston, Kinch Hoekstra

    E Book, 2021

    About David Johnston’s edition