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132 produkter
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2019
98 kr
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Niccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavelli''s …
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2019
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
119 kr
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Niccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavelli's adult …
Visions of Politics
Häftad, 2002
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
387 kr
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The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a …
Liberty before Liberalism
Häftad, 2012
248 kr
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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 …
Measurement in Psychology
A Critical History of a Methodological Concept
Av Joel Michell, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
410 kr
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This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so malleable when it collided with the subject matter of psychology. It locates philosophical and social influences (such as scientism, practicalism and Pythagoreanism) reshaping the concept and, at the core of this …
Families and States in Western Europe
Häftad, 2011
468 kr
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This collection of essays traces the relationship between families and states in the major countries of Western Europe since 1945, examining the power of states to shape family life and the capacity of families to influence states. Written by an exceptionally distinguished team of scholars, …
Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance
The Case of Law
Av Ian Maclean, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
748 kr
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This book investigates theories of interpretation and meaning in Renaissance jurisprudence. How do they relate to the institutions of the law, especially pedagogical institutions? What characterizes the most commonly adopted theories of the legal profession? In what form were they published? How do …
Liberty as Independence
The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
Inbunden, 2025
509 kr
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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 …
Forensic Shakespeare
E-bok, 2014
263 kr
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Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare''s creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece , on four of his late Elizabethan plays ( Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius …
Forensic Shakespeare
E-bok, 2014
263 kr
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Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare''s creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece , on four of his late Elizabethan plays ( Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius …
Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right
A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common Laws of England. Questions relative to Hereditary right
Av Quentin Skinner, Alan Cromartie
E-bok, 2005
652 kr
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This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England , edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession, ''Questions relative to Hereditary Right'', …
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2019
98 kr
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Niccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavelli''s …
Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right
A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common Laws of England. Questions relative to Hereditary right
Av Thomas Hobbes, T. Hobbes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
3040 kr
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This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession, 'Questions relative to Hereditary Right', …
Forensic Shakespeare
Häftad, 2018
451 kr
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Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar …
Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right
Av Alan Cromartie, Quentin Skinner
Häftad, 2008
791 kr
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This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession, 'Questions relative to Hereditary Right', …
Forensic Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2014
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
561 kr
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Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing some of the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays -- Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, …
Elizabethan Rhetoric
Theory and Practice
Av Peter Mack, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
557 kr
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Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in rhetoric and argument on a range of Elizabethan prose texts, including political orations, histories, romances, conduct manuals, privy council debates and personal letters. Elizabethan Rhetoric reconstructs the knowledge, skills and approaches …
The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism
Av Robert Alun Jones, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
846 kr
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Drawing on the kind of historicist perspective encouraged by Quentin Skinner and Richard Rorty, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism. Durkheim argued that social facts should be studied as real, concrete things but Professor Jones argues that his social realism was less a …
Pluralism and the Personality of the State
Av David Runciman, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
455 kr
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Set against the broad context of philosophical arguments about group and state personality, Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells, for the first time, the history of political pluralism. The pluralists believed that the state was simply one group among many, and could not therefore be …
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought
Av Eric Nelson, Quentin Skinner
Häftad, 2006
500 kr
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The Greek Tradition in Republic Thought completely rewrites the standard history of republican political theory. It excavates an identifiably Greek strain of republican thought which attaches little importance to freedom as non-dependence and sees no intrinsic value in political participation. This …
Englishness and the Study of Politics
The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker
Av Julia Stapleton, Quentin Skinner
Häftad, 2006
565 kr
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The definition of 'Englishness' has become the subject of considerable debate, and in this important contribution to Ideas in Context, Julia Stapleton looks at the work of one of the most wide-ranging and influential theorists of the English nation, Ernest Barker. The first holder of the Chair of …
The Social and Political Thought of Bertrand Russell
The Development of an Aristocratic Liberalism
Av Philip Ironside, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
716 kr
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This pioneering study of Bertrand Russell's social and political thought deals with the years 1896 to 1938, and is the first book to embark on a thorough investigation of the intellectual and cultural context out of which Russell's ideas emerged. Maintaining a sympathetic but critical stance …
Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Queen and Commonwealth 1558-1585
Av A. N. McLaren, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
727 kr
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In this major contribution to the Ideas in Context series Anne McLaren explores the consequences for English political culture when, with the accession of Elizabeth I, imperial 'kingship' came to be invested in the person of a female ruler. She looks at how Elizabeth managed to be queen, in the …
The Duel in Early Modern England
Civility, Politeness and Honour
Av Markku Peltonen, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
667 kr
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Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, …
Rival Enlightenments
Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany
Av Ian Hunter, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
477 kr
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Rival Enlightenments, first published in 2001, is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter approaches philosophical doctrines as ways of fashioning personae for envisaged historical circumstances, here of confessional conflict and political desacralization. …
Early Modern Liberalism
Av Annabel Patterson, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Early Modern Liberalism rediscovers an important phase in the development of liberal thought. Despite the fact that 'liberalism' as a term was not applied to political thought or political parties in England until late in the eighteenth century, Annabel Patterson argues that its central ideas were …
Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment
Av T. J. Hochstrasser, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
911 kr
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This major addition to Ideas in Context examines the development of natural law theories in the early stages of the Enlightenment in Germany and France. T. J. Hochstrasser investigates the influence exercised by theories of natural law from Grotius to Kant, with a comparative analysis of the …
The Transformation of Natural Philosophy
The Case of Philip Melanchthon
Av Sachiko Kusukawa, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for transforming traditional university natural philosophy into a specifically Lutheran one. Motivated by desire to check civil disobedience and promote a Lutheran orthodoxy, he created a natural philosophy based on Aristotle, Galen and …
Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain
Av N. T. Phillipson, Nicholas Phillipson m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
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Originally published in 1993, this collection of essays, all by pre-eminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain. Organised on a broadly chronological basis, the topics addressed by individual scholars reflect in general the themes …
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance
Inbunden, 1978
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1563 kr
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A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a …
