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To my knowledge, there is no comparative study of Thomas Hobbes and Humpty Dumpty. Yet such a study would be illuminating. On the one hand, Humpty and Hobbes met a similar end; as the body of the former broke into many pieces, so the grand theory of the latter was disassembled into smaller and smaller parts in the twentieth century. On the other hand, the causes of the tragedy were very different. Humpty’s fall was an accident that was waiting to happen: he climbed a wall although balance is not an egg’s forte; to their credit, all the King’s horses and all the King’s men tried to put Humpty together again. By contrast, Hobbes’s accident could not have been predicted: it happened at the hands of all the King’s horses and all the King’s men. Indeed, in the last century, legions of game-theorists, analytical philosophers, historians and international theorists dismantled his grand theory, each of them dissecting an aspect, a chapter, a passage, a paragraph, a metaphor, ‘a bit’ of Hobbes.
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Slomp, G. (2010). The Politics of Motion and the Motion of Politics. In: Prokhovnik, R., Slomp, G. (eds) International Political Theory after Hobbes. International Political Theory Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304734_2
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