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What is the full title of Thomas Hobbesâs Leviathan?
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Thomas Hobbes, detail of an oil painting by John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The full title of Thomas Hobbesâs masterpiece, first published in 1651, is Leviathan; or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil.1