In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die Lesarten von Thomas Hobbes in den Schriften Carl Schmitt und Leo Strauss herausgearbeitet.

This article argues that Thomas Hobbes' analysis of insult or ‘contumely’ prefigures recent developments in moral and political philosophy striking ways. Specifically, Hobbes's concerns about the dignitary harms hate speech went well beyond ‘fighting words’ to essential role played by expressions hatred contempt making unmaking social hierarchies. Hobbes’s sensitivity contumely’s subtle power c...