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Quentin Skinner - Liberty as Independence, Inbunden

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Liberty as Independence

The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

Av Quentin Skinner

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What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence from the classical ideal to early modern Britain, culminating in the claims of the Whig oligarchy to have transformed this idea into reality. Yet, with the Whig vision of a free state and civil society undermined by the American Revolution of 1776, Skinner explores how claims that liberty was fulfilled by an absence of physical or coercive restraint came to prominence. Liberty as Independence examines new dimensions of these rival views, considering the connections between debates on liberty and debates on slavery, and demonstrating how these ideas were harnessed in feminist discussions surrounding limitations on the liberty of women. The concept of liberty is inherently global, and Skinner argues strongly for the reinstatement of the understanding of liberty as independence.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-02-06
  • Mått: 160 x 237 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 590 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 332
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107027732
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Quentin Skinner is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. He was at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton between 1974 and 1979, and was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge between 1996 and 2008. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Renaissance and Modern Intellectual History, and the recipient of many awards including the Wolfson Prize for History and a Balzan Prize. Previous publications include the two-volume study, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Cambridge, 1978), Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge, 1998) and, most recently, From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics (Cambridge, 2018).

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'The ideal of liberty as independence from arbitrary power was hegemonic from the Roman Republic to the Age of Revolutions until it was rapidly, and seemingly irreversibly, replaced by the reigning notion of liberty as the absence of restraint. No one has done more to excavate the genealogies of these two concepts of liberty than Quentin Skinner. Liberty as Independence draws on decades of research and reflection to present a magisterial account of the anti-democratic and counter-revolutionary displacement of liberty as self-rule and of the prospects for recovering independence as a critical political value.' David Armitage, Harvard University

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