The Past as a Figure of the Present and Future

The argument to be presented here is that, from within the long tradition of political theorising about the State and by refashioning elements manufactured by his predecessors in that tradition, Hobbes fabricated a new idea of the State. Further, it will be argued that this idea has been worked on in turn by his successors within that tradition even up to now. It will be argued that the Hobbesian idea of the State was mythological.