ENGLISH

Visions of Politics

By Quentin Skinner

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0-511-04243-4, 0-521-81368-9
Open Library ID
OL7755464M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3545061 bytes)
Volume
Volume 3
Pages
405\405
Topic
History
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of writings spanning the past four decades Professor Skinner examines, with his customary perspicuity, the evolution and character of Hobbes's political thought. An indispensable work in its own right, this volume also serves as a demonstration of those methodological theories propounded in Volume I, and as an appositional commentary on the Renaissance values of civic virtue treated in Volume II. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition; these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought.

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