This radical new edition of Hobbes' Leviathan presents the entire work as a machine of metaphor, reassembled with precision and philosophical integrity. Rather than updating Hobbes's vocabulary through simplification, this translation restores his mechanistic logic-treating concepts like Motion, Fear, and Law not as abstractions, but as parts in a functioning system. The central metaphor-Trayne-is not a footnote, but the spine of this reconstruction: a sequence of causes, aligned or broken, that structures every political and psychological act. Across its four parts-Of Man, Of Commonwealth, Of a Christian Commonwealth, and Of the Kingdome of Darknesse-this edition translates Hobbes's Latin-inflected English into a conceptually faithful, rule-based, and capitalized logic system. Verbs are restructured to preserve mechanical clarity (e.g., hindered-rebound, unhindered-line, minted-doctrine), while nouns are marked to reveal their ontological role within Hobbes's political engine. The result is a Leviathan not read, but entered-a sovereign machine of motion, power, and authority that must be tracked rather than interpreted.

Created for readers of philosophy, political theory, law, and conceptual design, this edition will also resonate with literary theorists, AI ethicists, and metaphor specialists seeking ontological fidelity over academic commentary. Each chapter is reformulated to trace cause, motion, and counter-motion-building toward a total vision of sovereignty as alignment, not command. This is not your professor's Hobbes. It is a geared, minted, and mechanically faithful resurrection of Leviathan, rebuilt from its own conceptual blueprint.