Books in Review: Made With Words: Hobbes on Language,Mind,and Politics,by Philip Pettit. Princeton: Princeton University Press,2008. 183 pp. $29.95 (cloth)

Pettit (p. 15) quotes this passage from Hobbes's De Corpore.

Citations of this form are by chapter and page number to Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan , ed. Richard Tuck ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

There is a good discussion in Tom Sorrell, Hobbes (London : Routledge, 1986), 31-2 and 38-41.

Genesis 2: 19-20.

Hobbes, Elements of Law, pt. 2, chap. 8.

I have tried to address it in "Hobbes and Public Worship," in Nomos XLVIII: Toleration and its Limits, ed. Melissa Williams and Jeremy Waldron ( NYU Press, 2008), 31, at 38-41.

There is some discussion of the linguistic functions of law by Pettit at p. 131, where he describes the stipulatory introduction of new terms to give people "new coordinates . . . new concepts by which to navigate."

I have discussed this further in "Hobbes and the Principle of Publicity," in Skepticism, Individuality, and Freedom: The Reluctant Liberalism of Richard Flathman, ed. Bonnie Honig and David R. Mapel (University of Minnesota Press, 2002).

Jean Hampton , Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), esp. 132-88.

Ibid., 9-10.