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Hold History in Your Hands

22 Monday Aug 2016

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Charles Dickens, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Galileo, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), history, J. Willard Marriott Library, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John L. Stephens (1805-1852), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Rare Books Department, Shawn Sheahy, Special Collections, The University of Utah, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

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The Rare Books Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah invites students, faculty, and community members to visit the Special Collections Reading Room (Level 4), where you can hold history in your hands.

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The rare book collections of nearly 80,000 pieces includes first editions of Galileo’s Dialogo (1632), Bacon’s Novum Organum (1620), Dickens’ Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836), Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651), Rousseau’s Dictionnaire de Musique (1768), Stephens’ Incidents of Travel in Central America (1841), Swift’s Travels into Remote Nations of the World (1726), Thoreau’s Walden (1854), and much, much more.

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You are invited! — Read Banned Books!

29 Tuesday Sep 2015

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, banned books, Catcher in the Rye, dialogo, Galileo, J. D. Salinger, J. Willard Marriott Library, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Leviathan, Mark Twain, Marriott Library, rare books, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Travels

Exercise your right to read! Read from your favorite banned book.
Banned books open reading:

BannedBooks

Wednesday, September 30
11AM to 1PM
Library Plaza
J. Willard Marriott Library

Someone doesn’t want you to read, but we do!

Visit “SHHHHH!” on level 4

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Rare Books presents books, pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines that were banned, forbidden, censored, redacted, expurgated, published anonymously and otherwise attempted to be kept from public consumption. From religious and political writings to science, philosophy and poetry, these pieces of paper were deemed by some too dangerous to exist. On display are first editions of Galileo’s Dialogo (1632), Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651), Swift’s Travels (1726), Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye (1951) and others, too hot to handle hot off the press.

 

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Book of the week — Leviathan

27 Monday Jul 2015

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LEVIATHAN OR, THE MATTER, FORME, AND POWER OF A COMMON-WEALTH, ECCLESIASTICALL AND CIVILL
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
London: Printed for A. Crooke, 1651
First edition

Thomas Hobbes lived during a momentous period in English history. His Leviathan, a product of those troubled times, was one of the most important and controversial works of the seventeenth century. The English civil war, and the general conflict between royalists and republicans spurred Hobbes to write this, his greatest work. Banned as heretical and seditious and ordered to be burnt by the English Licensers almost immediately after this first edition was printed, Leviathan was reprinted in numerous spurious editions. In 1703 it was placed on the Index. For all that, the work was extremely influential, affecting, for instance, the early writings of Spinoza. Thomas Hobbes, writing during the period of the Puritan Revolution (1640’s), rejected the prevalent theory of divine right of kings and supported the idea of a social contract. He believed that the power of the sovereign was subject to certain limits. However, he defended absolutism, unpopular even in his day, as a necessary antidote to anarchy. The individual, then, except to save his own life, should always submit to the State. Later emphasis on the rights of the individual led to a decline in Hobbes’s influence. Even so, Leviathan was a major influence on the framers of the United States Constitution.

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