• Two of Hobbes' most notable works Leviathan (1651) and The Citizen (English translation published 1651) are bound together in this edition. Leviathan: Leviathan—or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—was written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. De Cive (The Citizen) One of Thomas Hobbes' major works, De Cive was first written in Latin and published in Paris in 1642. The book made its debut in London, England in 1651 under the title 'Philosophical rudiments concerning government and society'. It is made up of three parts: Libertas (liberty), Imperium (dominion), and Religio (religion). Hobbes first describes man’s natural condition, then the necessity of establishing a stable government and in the third part, Hobbes writes about religion.