Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
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Leviathan

Author: Thomas Hobbes

Narrator: Unknown

Unabridged: 30 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mika

Published: 06/10/2026


Synopsis

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What power can hold humanity together when fear, ambition, and violence threaten to tear it apart?

In *Leviathan*, Thomas Hobbes builds one of the most formidable visions in political philosophy: a world where human beings, left without authority, fall into suspicion, conflict, and the desperate struggle for survival. Written in the shadow of civil war, Hobbes’s masterpiece asks a ruthless question that still defines political life: what must we surrender in order to live in peace?

Through his famous account of the state of nature, the social contract, and the sovereign power of the commonwealth, Hobbes examines the foundations of law, obedience, liberty, religion, and political order. His argument is stark, unsettling, and enduring: without a power strong enough to command peace, society risks collapsing into fear and war.

First published in 1651, *Leviathan* became one of the most influential works of modern political thought. Its ideas shaped debates on authority, government, individual rights, security, and the limits of freedom—and they remain urgently relevant in an age of polarization, distrust, and institutional crisis.

This AI-narrated audiobook offers a clear, polished, and immersive listening experience, making Hobbes’s dense and powerful reasoning more accessible while preserving the force of his argument.

Enter the mind that redefined sovereignty, fear, and the social contract. Begin listening to *Leviathan* today.

About Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) was born in Wiltshire, England. Educated at Oxford, where he studied classics, he later became tutor to the son of William Cavendish, Baron of Hardwick. His first published work was a translation of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War in 1628. An interest in science and philosophy soon developed, heightened by extended travels in Europe. This led to Leviathan—the crowning achievement of his political science. It was so influential that it came under widespread attack and was in danger of condemnation by the House of Commons. Hobbes perforce lived quietly and published little more on political matters. At the age of eighty-four, he composed an autobiography in Latin verse and within the next three years translated the whole of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad.


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