Quentin Skinner, Skinner Quentin

Visions of Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading historians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780521581059
• ISBN-10: 0521581052
• Artikelnr.: 23177267

Autorenporträt

QUENTIN SKINNER is Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College.

Inhaltsangabe

General preface
Full contents: volumes 1-3
Acknowledgements
Conventions
Volume 1: Regarding Method: 1. Introduction: seeing things their way
2. The practice of history and the cult of the fact
3. Interpretation, rationality and truth
4. Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas
5. Motives, intentions and interpretation
6. Interpretation and the understanding of speech acts
7. 'Social meaning' and the explanation of social action
8. Moral principles and social change
9. The idea of a cultural lexicon
10. Retrospect: studying rhetoric and conceptual change
Bibliography
Index.