Liberty before Liberalism - Couverture souple

Skinner, Quentin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521638763 ISBN 13 : 9780521638760

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early-modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds'. This essay thus provides one of the most substantial statements yet made about the importance, relevance and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry. Liberty before Liberalism is based on Quentin Skinner's Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, delivered in November 1997. Professor Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Liberty Before Liberalism is a meditation both on the methods of intellectual historiography and an exemplar of them. Nobody who knows of Skinner or his work ... can doubt his command of his subject, or his acute generosity to other scholars.' The Times Literary Supplement

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521638763
• ISBN 13: 9780521638760
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156