| Acknowledgements | p. x |
| Abbreviations to Hobbes's works quoted in the text | p. xi |
| Introduction. The Political Geometry of Glory | p. 1 |
| Elements of Political Geometry | p. 9 |
| The Co-Ordinates of Man: Time and Space | p. 11 |
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| The Political Appeal of Motion | p. 13 |
| The Time Dimension of the Mind | p. 17 |
| Time and Politics | p. 19 |
| Fatal Equality | p. 22 |
| Introduction | p. 22 |
| Equalities and Differences | p. 23 |
| Human Fragility | p. 25 |
| Political Equality and Social Inequality | p. 26 |
| Is Equal Dangerousness Self-Evident? | p. 28 |
| The Axiom of Glory | p. 31 |
| Introduction | p. 31 |
| Definitions of Glory | p. 33 |
| Forms of Glory | p. 34 |
| Value-Loaded and Descriptive Terms | p. 36 |
| Glory and Honour | p. 38 |
| Glory and Self-preservation | p. 40 |
| Glory and Felicity | p. 43 |
| Glory: Parallels and Intersections | p. 45 |
| Introduction | p. 45 |
| The Sources of Hobbesian Glory | p. 45 |
| Aristotle's honour | p. 46 |
| Biblical pride | p. 47 |
| Aristocratic honour | p. 48 |
| Glory and bourgeois greed | p. 49 |
| Bacon's Essays | p. 49 |
| Thucydides and Hobbes on Glory: Influence or Coincidence? | p. 51 |
| Glory, honour, and ambition | p. 52 |
| Accumulation of wealth and the pursuit of honour | p. 54 |
| The lessons of war | p. 55 |
| Thucydides' fate and Hobbes's faith in education | p. 56 |
| Ambition: Paradoxes and Puzzles | p. 58 |
| Introduction | p. 58 |
| The Political Consequences of Ambition | p. 59 |
| Ambition in Anti-White | p. 60 |
| Ambition in Behemoth | p. 60 |
| Ambition in Elements of Law, De Cive, and Leviathan | p. 61 |
| Civil War in Thucydides and Hobbes | p. 63 |
| The Implications of Private and Public Money | p. 65 |
| Thucydides' Paradox of Ambition and Hobbes's Solution | p. 66 |
| Hobbes's Puzzle | p. 69 |
| Beehives and behaviour | p. 69 |
| The three greatest things | p. 71 |
| Proximate and ultimate causes of conflict | p. 72 |
| The Dilemma of Fear and Hope | p. 74 |
| Introduction | p. 74 |
| Characterisation of Fear | p. 75 |
| The Role of Fear | p. 78 |
| The Effectiveness of Fear | p. 80 |
| Thucydides' Dilemma of Fear | p. 81 |
| The Trajectory of Glory | p. 84 |
| Introduction | p. 84 |
| The Glory-seekers | p. 85 |
| Melancholy and madness | p. 86 |
| Riches, places of power, knowledge, and sensualities | p. 86 |
| Charity and laughter | p. 87 |
| The Mysterious Non-Glory-seekers | p. 88 |
| The Fall of Glory in Leviathan and De Homine | p. 90 |
| Sherlock Holmes and Other Detectives | p. 92 |
| Glory and the Excellent Sex | p. 97 |
| Introduction | p. 97 |
| Hobbes's Rejection of Natural Patriarchalism | p. 99 |
| Hobbes's Open Social Contract | p. 102 |
| Hobbes and Artificial Patriarchy | p. 103 |
| Custom and the Excellent Sex | p. 105 |
| The Determinants of the Citizen: Nature and Nurture | p. 108 |
| Introduction | p. 108 |
| The Interdependence of the Hobbesian Glory-seeker | p. 109 |
| Hobbes on Education | p. 112 |
| Hobbes on Nature and Nurture | p. 114 |
| From Natural Agent to Educated Citizen | p. 116 |
| Theorems of Political Geometry | p. 119 |
| The Rational Actor at Play | p. 121 |
| Introduction | p. 121 |
| The State of Nature as a Thought Experiment | p. 122 |
| On the Applicability of Game Theory to Hobbes | p. 123 |
| Game-Theory Applications to Hobbes's Theory | p. 125 |
| The Bees and Ants game | p. 126 |
| Prisoner's Dilemmas | p. 126 |
| Gauthier's Logic of Leviathan and assumption selection | p. 126 |
| Kavka, Hampton, and the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma | p. 128 |
| Assurance games | p. 131 |
| Neal's 'co-ordination' game | p. 133 |
| Fowl games: Chickens, Hawks and Doves | p. 134 |
| Game Theory a la Carte | p. 134 |
| Chicken with Spices: Glory and Death | p. 135 |
| Hobbes's Impossibility Theorem | p. 140 |
| Introduction | p. 140 |
| The Requirements of the Political Definition of Man | p. 142 |
| Definitions and Theorem | p. 144 |
| Escape from the Impossibility Result | p. 148 |
| Geometer, Agent, and Reader | p. 150 |
| Correspondents' Responses to the Theorem | p. 152 |
| The Ideology of Political Geometry | p. 155 |
| Introduction | p. 155 |
| Hobbes, Ideologies and Ideas | p. 156 |
| Conservatism, pessimism, and custom | p. 156 |
| Fascism, Peace, and the State | p. 157 |
| Christian morality, the beggar, and the apple tree | p. 158 |
| The Utilitarian, the Happy, and the Poor | p. 161 |
| Hobbes, the Oppressive Liberal? | p. 163 |
| The Ideology of Political Geometry | p. 164 |
| Hobbes, Orwell, and Room 101 | p. 166 |
| Hobbes, Camus, and The Plague | p. 167 |
| Notes | p. 174 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 184 |
| Name Index | p. 191 |
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