Quentin Skinner

Visions of Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9780521813686
• ISBN-10: 0521813689
• Artikelnr.: 29337210

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Hobbes's career in philosophy
2. Hobbes and the studia humanitatis
3. Hobbes's changing conception of a civil science
4. Hobbes on rhetoric and the construction of morality
5. Hobbes and the purely artificial person of the state
6. Hobbes on the proper signification of liberty
7. Hobbes and the classical theory of laughter
8. History and ideology in the English revolution
9. The context of Hobbes's theory of political obligation
10. Conquest and consent: Hobbes and the engagement controversy
11. Hobbes and his disciples in France and England
12. Hobbes and the politics of the early Royal Society
13. Hobbes's last word on politics.