The secondary literature on Hobbes’s moral and political philosophy (not to speak of his entire body of work) is vast, appearing across many disciplines and in many languages. The following is a narrow selection of fairly recent works by philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians, available in English, on main areas of inquiry in Hobbes’s moral and political thought. Very helpful for further reference is the critical bibliography of Hobbes scholarship to 1990 contained in Zagorin, P., 1990, “Hobbes on Our Mind”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 51(2).

Journals

• Hobbes Studies is an annually published journal devoted to scholarly research on all aspects of Hobbes’s work.

Collections

• Brown, K.C. (ed.), 1965, Hobbes Studies, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, contains important papers by A.E. Taylor, J.W. N. Watkins, Howard Warrender, and John Plamenatz, among others. (Scholar)
• Caws, P. (ed.), 1989, The Causes of Quarrell: Essays on Peace, War, and Thomas Hobbes, Boston: Beacon Press. (Scholar)
• Courtland, S. (ed.), 2017, Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public Policy, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Dietz, M. (ed.), 1990, Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. (Scholar)
• Dyzenhaus, D. and T. Poole (eds.), 2013, Hobbes and the Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Douglass, R. and J. Olsthoorn (eds.), 2019, Hobbes's On the Citizen: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Finkelstein, C. (ed.), 2005, Hobbes on Law, Aldershot: Ashgate. (Scholar)
• Hirschmann, N. and J. Wright (eds.), 2012, Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)
• Lloyd, S.A. (ed.), 2012, Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes, London: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, Interpretations of Hobbes’ Political Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Lloyd, S.A. (ed.), 2001, “Special Issue on Recent Work on the Moral and Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 82 (3&4). (Scholar)
• Martinich, A.P. and Kinch Hoekstra (eds.), 2016, The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Odzuck, E. and A. Chadwick (eds.), 2020, Feminist Perspectives on Hobbes, special issue of Hobbes Studies. (Scholar)
• Rogers, G.A.J. and A. Ryan (eds.), 1988, Perspectives on Thomas Hobbes, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Rogers, G.A.J. (ed.), 1995, Leviathan: Contemporary Responses to the Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes, Bristol: Thoemmes Press. (Scholar)
• Rogers, G.A.J. and T. Sorell (eds.), 2000, Hobbes and History. London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Shaver, R. (ed.), 1999, Hobbes, Hanover: Dartmouth Press. (Scholar)
• Sorell, T. (ed.), 1996, The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Sorell, T., and L. Foisneau (eds.), 2004, Leviathan after 350 years, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Sorell, T. and G.A.J. Rogers (eds.), 2000, Hobbes and History, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Springborg, P. (ed.), 2007, The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes’s Leviathan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)

Books and Articles

• Abizadeh, A., 2011, “Hobbes on the Causes of War: A Disagreement Theory”, American Political Science Review, 105 (2): 298–315. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Armitage, D., 2007, “Hobbes and the foundations of modern international thought”, in Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Ashcraft, R., 1971, “Hobbes’s Natural Man: A Study in Ideology Formation”, Journal of Politics, 33: 1076–1117. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, “Slavery Discourse before the Restoration: The Barbary Coast, Justinian’s Digest, and Hobbes’s Political Theory”, History of European Ideas, 36 (2): 412–418. (Scholar)
• Baumgold, D., 1988, Hobbes’s Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Bejan, T.M., 2010, “Teaching the Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Education”, Oxford Review of Education, 36(5): 607–626. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “Difference without Disagreement: Rethinking Hobbes on ‘Independency’ and Toleration”, The Review of Politics, 78(1): 1–25. (Scholar)
• –––, forthcoming, “Hobbes Against Hate Speech”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, first online: 03 Feb 2022. doi:10.1080/09608788.2022.2027340. (Scholar)
• Baumgold, D., 2013, “Trust in Hobbes’s Political Thought”, Political Theory, 41(6): 835–55. (Scholar)
• Benhabib, S., 2022, “Thomas Hobbes on My Mind: Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes”, Social Research: An International Quarterly, 89(2): 233–247. (Scholar)
• Bobier, C., 2020, “Rethinking Thomas Hobbes on the Passions”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 101(4): 582–602. (Scholar)
• Bobbio, N., 1993, Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Boonin-Vail, D., 1994, Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Boucher, D., 2018, Appropriating Hobbes: Legacies in Political, Legal, and International Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Byron, M., 2015, Submission and Subjection in Leviathan: Good Subjects in the Hobbbesian Commonwealth, Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave MacMillan. (Scholar)
• Collins, J., 2005, The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Curley, E., 1988, “I durst not write so boldly: or how to read Hobbes’ theological-political treatise”, E. Giancotti (ed.), Proceedings of the Conference on Hobbes and Spinoza, Urbino. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994, “Introduction to Hobbes’s Leviathan”, Leviathan with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668, E. Curley (ed.), Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Curran, E., 2006, “Can Rights Curb the Hobbesian Sovereign? The Full Right to Self-preservation, Duties of Sovereignty and the Limitations of Hohfeld”, Law and Philosophy, 25: 243–265. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, Reclaiming the Rights of Hobbesian Subjects, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “An Immodest Proposal: Hobbes Rather than Locke Provides a Forerunner for Modern Rights Theory”, Law and Philosophy, 32 (4): 515–538. (Scholar)
• Darwall, S., 1995. The British Moralists and the Internal ‘Ought’, 1640–1740, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Scholar)
• ––– 2000, “Normativity and Projection in Hobbes’s Leviathan”, The Philosophical Review, 109 (3): 313–347. (Scholar)
• Ewin, R.E., 1991, Virtues and Rights: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Boulder: Westview Press. (Scholar)
• Finn, S., 2006, Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy, London: Continuum Press. (Scholar)
• Field, S.L., 2020, Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Flathman, R., 1993, Thomas Hobbes: Skepticism, Individuality, and Chastened Politics, Newbury Park, CA: Sage. (Scholar)
• Garofalo, P., 2021, “Psychology and Obligation in Hobbes: The Case of Ought Implies Can”, Hobbes Studies, 34(1): 146–171. (Scholar)
• Gauthier, D., 1969, The Logic of ‘Leviathan’: The Moral and political Theory of Thomas Hobbes, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Gert, B., 1967, “Hobbes and Psychological Egoism”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 28: 503–520. (Scholar)
• ––– 1978, “Introduction to Man and Citizen”, Man and Citizen, B. Gert, (ed.), New York: Humanities Press. (Scholar)
• ––– 1988, “The Law of Nature and the Moral Law”, Hobbes Studies, 1: 26–44. (Scholar)
• Goldsmith, M. M., 1966, Hobbes’s Science of Politics, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Gray, M., 2010, “Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes: A Response to Carole Pateman and Susan Okin”, CEU Political Science Journal, 1(1): 1–29. (Scholar)
• Green, M., 2015, “Authorization and Political Authority in Hobbes”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 62(3): 25–47. (Scholar)
• Hall, B., 2005, “Hobbes on Race” in Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Hampton, J., 1986, Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Herbert, G., 1989, Thomas Hobbes: The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. (Scholar)
• Hoekstra, K., 1999, “Nothing to Declare: Hobbes and the Advocate of Injustice”, Political Theory, 27 (2): 230–235. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, “Hobbes on Law, Nature and Reason”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 41 (1): 111–120. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “The End of Philosophy”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 106: 25–62. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, “A Lion in the House: Hobbes and Democracy” in Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Early Modern Absolutism and Constitutionalism”, Cardozo Law Review, 34 (3): 1079–1098. (Scholar)
• Holden, T., 2018, “Hobbes on the Authority of Scripture”, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, 8: 68–95. (Scholar)
• Hood, E.C., 1964. The Divine Politics of Thomas Hobbes, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Johnston, D., 1986, The Rhetoric of ‘Leviathan’: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Kapust, Daniel J. and Brandon P. Turner, 2013, “Democratical Gentlemen and the Lust for Mastery: Status, Ambition, and the Language of Liberty in Hobbes’s Political Thought”, Political Theory, 41 (4): 648–675. (Scholar)
• Kavka, G., 1986, Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Koganzon, R., 2015, “The Hostile Family and the Purpose of the ‘Natural Kingdom’ in Hobbes's Political Thought”, The Review of Politics, 77(3): 377–398. (Scholar)
• Kramer, M., 1997, Hobbes and the Paradox of Political Origins, New York: St. Martin’s Press. (Scholar)
• Krom, M., 2011, The Limits of Reason in Hobbes’s Commonwealth, New York: Continuum Press. (Scholar)
• LeBuffe, M., 2003, “Hobbes on the Origin of Obligation”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 11 (1): 15–39. (Scholar)
• Lloyd, S.A., 1992, Ideals as Interests in Hobbes’s ‘Leviathan’: the Power of Mind over Matter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, “Contemporary Uses of Hobbes’s political philosophy”, in Rational Commitment and Social Justice: Essays for Gregory Kavka, J. Coleman and C. Morris (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Cases in the Law of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “Authorization and Moral Responsibility in the Philosophy of Hobbes”, Hobbes Studies, 29: 169–88. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “Duty Without Obligation”, Hobbes Studies, 30: 202–221. (Scholar)
• –––, 2022, “Hobbes’s Theory of Responsibility as Support for Sommerville’s Argument Against Hobbes’s Approval of Independency”, Hobbes Studies, 35(1): 51–66. (Scholar)
• Lott, T., 2002, “Patriarchy and Slavery in Hobbes’s Political Philosophy” in Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays, pp. 63–80. (Scholar)
• Luban, D., 2018, “Hobbesian Slavery”, Political Theory, 46(5): 726–748. (Scholar)
• Macpherson, C.B., 1962, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1968, “Introduction”, Leviathan, C.B. Macpherson (ed.), London: Penguin. (Scholar)
• Malcolm, N., 2002, Aspects of Hobbes, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Martel, J., 2007, Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Martinich, A.P., 1992, The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995, A Hobbes Dictionary, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• –––, 1999, Hobbes: A Biography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, Hobbes, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “The Sovereign in the Political Thought of Hanfeizi and Thomas Hobbes”, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 38 (1): 64–72. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, Hobbes’s Political Philosophy: Interpretation and Interpretations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• May, L., 2013, Limiting Leviathan: Hobbes on Law and International Affairs, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• McClure, C.S., 2013, “War, Madness, and Death: The Paradox of Honor in Hobbes’s Leviathan”, The Journal of Politics, 76 (1): 114–125. (Scholar)
• Moehler, M., 2009, “Why Hobbes’ State of Nature is Best Modeled by an Assurance Game”, Utilitas, 21 (3): 297–326. (Scholar)
• Moloney, P., 2011, “Hobbes, Savagery, and International Anarchy”, American Political Science Review, 105 (1): 189–204. (Scholar)
• Murphy, M., 2000, “Hobbes on the Evil of Death”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 82: 36–61. (Scholar)
• Nagel, T., 1959, “Hobbes’s Concept of Obligation”, Philosophical Review, 68: 68–83. (Scholar)
• Nyquist, M., 2009, “Hobbes, Slavery, and Despotical Rule” Representations, 106(1): 1–33. (Scholar)
• Oakeshott, M., 1975. Hobbes on Civil Association, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Olsthoorn, J., 2013, “Why Justice and Injustice Have No Place Outside the Hobbesian State”, European Journal of Political Theory. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Hobbes Account of Distributive Justice as Equity”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 21 (1): 13–33. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, “Hobbes on Justice, Property Rights, and Self-ownership”, History of Political Thought, 36(3): 471–498. (Scholar)
• Pateman, C., 1989, “‘God hath ordained to man a helper’: Hobbes, Patriarchy and Conjugal Right”, British Journal of Political Science, 19(4): 445–463. (Scholar)
• Peacock, M., 2010, “Obligation and Advantage in Hobbes’ Leviathan”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 40 (3): 433–458. (Scholar)
• Petit, P., 2008, Made With Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Raphael, D. D., 1977, Hobbes: Morals and Politics, London: Routledge Press. (Scholar)
• Rustighi, L., 2020, “Rethinking the Sexual Contract: The Case of Thomas Hobbes”, Philosophy & Social Criticism, 46(3): 274–301. (Scholar)
• Ryan, A., 1986, “A More Tolerant Hobbes?”, S. Mendus, (ed.), Justifying Toleration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Shelton, G., 1992, Morality and Sovereignty in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, New York: St. Martin’s Press. (Scholar)
• Schneewind, J.B., 1997, The Invention of Autonomy: History of Modern Moral Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Schwitzgebel, E., 2007, “Human Nature and Moral Education in Mencius, Xunzi, Hobbes, and Rousseau”, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 24 (2): 147–168. (Scholar)
• Skinner, Q., 1996, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, Visions of Politics Volume 3: Hobbes and Civil Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, “Hobbes on Representation”, European Journal of Philosophy, 13 (2): 155–184. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, Hobbes and Republican Liberty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Slomp, G., 1994, “Hobbes and the Equality of Women” Political Studies, 42(3): 441–452. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “As Thick as Thieves: Exploring Thomas Hobbes’ Critique of Ancient Friendship and its Contemporary Relevance”, Political Studies, 67(1): 191–206. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000. Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Glory, New York: St. Martin’s Press. (Scholar)
• Sommerville, J., 1992, Thomas Hobbes: Political Ideas in Historical Context, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Sorell, T., 1986, Hobbes, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “Hobbes on Trade, Consumption, and International Order”, Monist, 89 (2): 245–258. (Scholar)
• Springborg, P., 2011, “Hobbes’s Fool the Insipiens, and the Tyrant-King”, Political Theory 39 (1): 85–111. (Scholar)
• Sreedhar, S., 2008, “Defending the Hobbesian Right of Self-Defense”, Political Theory, 36 (6): 781–802. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, Hobbes on Resistance: Defying the Leviathan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “Hobbes on ‘The Woman Question’”, Philosophy Compass, 7 (11): 772–781. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “The Curious Case of Hobbes’s Amazons”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 57(4): 621–646. (Scholar)
• Strauss, L., 1936, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: its Basis and Genesis, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Sussmann, N., 2010, “How Many Commonwealths can Leviathan Swallow? Covenant, Sovereign, and People in Hobbes’s Political Theory”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 18 (4): 575–596. (Scholar)
• Tralau, J., 2011, “Hobbes Contra Liberty of Conscience”, Political Theory, 39 (1): 58–84. (Scholar)
• Tuck, R., 1979, Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1989, Hobbes, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1991, “Introduction”, Leviathan, R. Tuck, (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993, Philosophy and Government 1572–1651, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Van Apeldoorn, L., 2020, “On the Person and Office of the Sovereign in Hobbes’ Leviathan”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 28(1): 49–68. (Scholar)
• Van Mill, D., 2001, Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes’s Leviathan, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Venezia, L., 2013, “Hobbes’ Two Accounts of Law and the Structure of Reasons for Political Obedience”, European Journal of Political Theory. (Scholar)
• Warrender, H., 1957, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: his Theory of Obligation, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Watkins, J.W.N., 1965, Hobbes’s System of Ideas, London: Hutchison and Co. (Scholar)
• Ward, L., 2020 “Equity and Political Economy in Thomas Hobbes”, American Journal of Political Science, 64(4): 823–835. (Scholar)
• Zagorin, P., 2009, Hobbes and the Law of Nature, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)