Bringing together expert contributors in a range of disciplines from the UK, the USA and Europe, Hobbes in Dialogue shines a much-needed light on the political and philosophical dialogues of Thomas Hobbes.

The book is divided into three major parts that address earlier dialogues, which shaped the background to Hobbes's own, Hobbes's dialogues themselves and the wider context of his philosophy in relation to the dialogue form, and lastly two later dialogues that criticised Hobbes.

The various chapters explore how the dialogue form allowed Hobbes, as one of the eminent thinkers who shaped early modern political thought, to present his political philosophy in a different guise. How do his dialogues tally with his other often more systematic works? Do they complement his earlier writings? Does he expect the readers of his dialogues to know about his key positions and arguments as notably developed in De Cive and Leviathan? These are some of the leading questions Hobbes in Dialogue considers in a collection that reveals much about Hobbes's thinking and the intellectual history of Europe in the early modern age more broadly.

Peter Schröder is Professor of the History of Political Thought at University College London, UK. He is the author of several books, including Pufendorf's International Political and Legal Thought (2024) and Trust in Early Modern International Political Thought, 1598–1713 (2017). He is also the editor of Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought (2021) and the co-editor, with Olaf Asbach, of The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War (2014).

Samuel Garrett Zeitlin is Lecturer in Modern Intellectual History at University College London, UK. He is the co-editor and co-translator, with Lars Vinx, of Carl Schmitt's Early Legal-Theoretical Writings (2021).