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In 1651 Thomas Hobbes chose as the title for the work with which modern political philosophy was inaugurated the name of a monster that appeared in the Book of Job. He was the Leviathan, a being of unmatched strength and power who has, since then, become synonymous with the state. This book is about that same Leviathan, in which David Runciman explores the fundamental ideas about the modern state of twelve great political philosophers, and connects them with the dilemmas we face today. In his characteristic lighthearted style, shunned from technical language and academic discussions, he explores what these ideas meant in his day and what they might mean for us. And it is that, despite all the changes that have occurred in these last four hundred years, the key problems of the tension between freedom and power, of the relationship between citizens and those who govern them, are still there. Will the state we have built to keep us safe be our savior or our destroyer? Could it somehow be both? Based on the reflections of great thinkers such as Hobbes himself, Tocqueville, Wollstonecraft, Marx and Engels, Max Weber, Gandhi or Fukuyama, this history of political ideas helps us understand what is happening today, and represents a turning point. exceptional game to start thinking about all that is at stake in our societies.