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  • Volume 3: Hobbes and Civil Science
  • Quentin Skinner, University of Cambridge
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2012
Print publication year:
2002
Online ISBN:
9780511613784
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613784
Subjects:
British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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Book 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. Professer 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

Awards

Winner of the 2007 David Easton Award - Foundation of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association

Reviews

‘As a retrospective showcase of the work of a major scholar, this is impressive. Skinner’s ability to combine political and philosophical insight with minute knowledge of several centuries of political literature is awe inspiring.’

Robert Sugden Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

' … this is a deeply impressive collection which displays Skinner's exceptional range.'

Source: The New York Review

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