Temporality and interaction in Hobbes’s Leviathan: condition of nature and civil state

Abstract

In the present article, we will analyse the representation of time that Hobbes outlines in Leviathan (1651) when referring to the state of nature and the civil state, taking into account the relationship between the ways in which interactions occur, representations and time horizon of the individuals in each case. Likewise, we will consider both temporalities in terms of rhythmics and we will articulate them with the notion of development. The approach will be philosophical but we will incorporate in our theoretical framework elements from the sociology and the anthropology of time such as the notions of temporality, development and rhythm of Iparraguirre (2011 and 2017), and the notion of time horizon (Noyes, Boniecki) as a contribution to Hobbesian studies.