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Authoritarian state vs totalitarian state: Leviathan in an early twentieth-century French debate

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The use of Hobbes to analyse 1930s European political transformations is well illustrated in the context of the French Third Republic by René Capitant’s critique of Joseph Vialatoux’s interpretation of Hobbes, which the latter entitled La cité de Hobbes. Théorie de l’Etat totalitaire. As a young and in many ways atypical law professor at the University of Strasbourg René Capitant was quite interested in the evolution of the political and constitutional situation in the Weimar Republic, and then in National Socialist Germany. His critique of the Catholic professor Vialatoux, in a review article entitled “Hobbes et l’Etat totalitaire”, can thus be considered, on the one hand, as a critique of the Catholic reading of Hobbes as the father of modern “naturalist” philosophy and, on the other hand, as a contribution to the political analysis of the Third Reich.

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Luc Foisneau. Authoritarian state vs totalitarian state: Leviathan in an early twentieth-century French debate. Luc Foisneau; Jean-Christophe Merle; Tom Sorell. Leviathan Between the Wars. Hobbes’ Impact on Early Twentieth Century Political Philosophy, 11, Peter Lang, pp.77-94, 2005, Rechtsphilosophische Hefte, 978-3-631-51239-5. ⟨hal-02553998⟩
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