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History in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Hardcover): Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner History in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Hardcover)
Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner
R2,417 R2,044 Discovery Miles 20 440 Save R373 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology. The relevance of historical approaches within these disciplines has shifted over the centuries. Many of them, like law and economics, originally depended on self-consciously historical procedures. These included the marshalling of evidence from past experience, philological techniques and source criticism. Between the late nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth century, the influence of new methods of research, many indebted to models favoured by the natural sciences, such as statistical, analytical or empirical approaches, secured an expanding intellectual authority while the hegemony of historical methods declined in relative terms. In the aftermath of this change, the essays collected in History in the Humanities and Social Sciences reflect from a variety of angles on the relevance of historical concerns to representative disciplines as they are configured today.

Hobbes and Republican Liberty (Hardcover): Quentin Skinner Hobbes and Republican Liberty (Hardcover)
Quentin Skinner
R2,160 R1,674 Discovery Miles 16 740 Save R486 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first originated in classical antiquity, and lay at the heart of the Roman republican tradition of public life. Thomas Hobbes was the most formidable enemy of this pattern of thought, and his successive attempts to discredit it constitute a truly epochal moment in the history of Anglophone political thought. Hobbes and Republican Liberty develops several of the themes announced by Quentin Skinner in his celebrated inaugural lecture on Liberty before Liberalism of 1997. Cogent, engaged, accessible, and indeed exhilarating, this new book will appeal to readers of history, politics, and philosophy at all levels from upper-undergraduate upwards, and provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time.

History in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Paperback): Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner History in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Paperback)
Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology. The relevance of historical approaches within these disciplines has shifted over the centuries. Many of them, like law and economics, originally depended on self-consciously historical procedures. These included the marshalling of evidence from past experience, philological techniques and source criticism. Between the late nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth century, the influence of new methods of research, many indebted to models favoured by the natural sciences, such as statistical, analytical or empirical approaches, secured an expanding intellectual authority while the hegemony of historical methods declined in relative terms. In the aftermath of this change, the essays collected in History in the Humanities and Social Sciences reflect from a variety of angles on the relevance of historical concerns to representative disciplines as they are configured today.

Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective (Hardcover): Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective (Hardcover)
Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner
R2,843 Discovery Miles 28 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty from antiquity to the twentieth century. First formulated between the late sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the various early modern conceptions of the doctrine were heavily indebted to Roman reflection on forms of government and Athenian ideas of popular power. This study, edited by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner, traces successive transformations of the doctrine, rather than narrating a linear development. It examines critical moments in the career of popular sovereignty, spanning antiquity, medieval Europe, the early modern wars of religion, the revolutions of the eighteenth century and their aftermath, decolonisation and mass democracy. Featuring original work by an international team of scholars, the book offers a reconsideration of one of the formative principles of contemporary politics by exploring its descent from classical city-states to the advent of the modern state.

Visions of Politics (Hardcover, Volume 3, Hobbes and Civil Science): Quentin Skinner Visions of Politics (Hardcover, Volume 3, Hobbes and Civil Science)
Quentin Skinner
R2,648 R2,281 Discovery Miles 22 810 Save R367 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the leading historians of ideas in the world. This collection includes some of his most important essays on the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition, and these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought.

States and Citizens - History, Theory, Prospects (Hardcover, New): Quentin Skinner, Bo Strath States and Citizens - History, Theory, Prospects (Hardcover, New)
Quentin Skinner, Bo Strath
R2,161 R1,806 Discovery Miles 18 060 Save R355 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Coverage of the Western European experience is wide-ranging in this survey of perceptions of the state, its history, and prospects in the contemporary world. The greatest post-colonial democratic state, India, is also discussed as an important comparative example. Contributions by a distinguished pan-European team of authors ensure this study's value to students and teachers of the history of ideas, political theory and European studies.

Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (Hardcover, New): Nicholas Phillipson, Quentin Skinner Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (Hardcover, New)
Nicholas Phillipson, Quentin Skinner
R3,424 R3,178 Discovery Miles 31 780 Save R246 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays, all by preeminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain. Organized on a broadly chronological basis, the topics addressed by individual scholars reflect in general the themes initiated and inspired by the work of the distinguished intellectual historian, J. G. A. Pocock, for whom the collection is intended as a tribute. Each of the sixteen contributors have thought long and critically about Pocock's seminal contributions to the subject, and in each essay engages with the debates he has provoked. Professor Pocock has responded to the essays and provided his personal interpretation of the themes they invoke.

Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (Hardcover, New): Quentin Skinner Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (Hardcover, New)
Quentin Skinner
R3,429 R3,182 Discovery Miles 31 820 Save R247 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This major work from Quentin Skinner presents a fundamental reappraisal of the political theory of Hobbes. Using, for the first time, the full range of manuscript as well as printed sources, it documents an entirely new view of Hobbes' intellectual development, and reexamines the shift from a humanist to a scientific culture in European moral and political thought. By examining Hobbes' philosophy against the background of his humanist education, Professor Skinner rescues this most difficult and challenging of political philosophers from the intellectual isolation in which he is so often discussed.

From Humanism to Hobbes - Studies in Rhetoric and Politics (Hardcover): Quentin Skinner From Humanism to Hobbes - Studies in Rhetoric and Politics (Hardcover)
Quentin Skinner
R2,543 Discovery Miles 25 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli's The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare's plays, notably Coriolanus. The second half of the book examines the humanist background to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. A major new essay discusses his typically humanist preoccupation with the visual presentation of his political ideas, while other chapters explore the rhetorical sources of his theory of persons and personation, thereby offering new insights into his views about citizenship, political representation, rights and obligations and the concept of the state.

From Humanism to Hobbes - Studies in Rhetoric and Politics (Paperback): Quentin Skinner From Humanism to Hobbes - Studies in Rhetoric and Politics (Paperback)
Quentin Skinner
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli's The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare's plays, notably Coriolanus. The second half of the book examines the humanist background to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. A major new essay discusses his typically humanist preoccupation with the visual presentation of his political ideas, while other chapters explore the rhetorical sources of his theory of persons and personation, thereby offering new insights into his views about citizenship, political representation, rights and obligations and the concept of the state.

Freedom and the Construction of Europe (Paperback): Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen Freedom and the Construction of Europe (Paperback)
Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen
R1,134 Discovery Miles 11 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a continent of proliferating religious denominations. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.

Freedom and the Construction of Europe (Paperback): Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen Freedom and the Construction of Europe (Paperback)
Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen
R1,612 Discovery Miles 16 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.

Machiavelli: The Prince (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Niccolo Machiavelli Machiavelli: The Prince (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Niccolo Machiavelli; Edited by Quentin Skinner, Russell Price
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R1,337 Discovery Miles 13 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccolo Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought. The Prince remains his best-known work, and throws down a challenge that subsequent writers on statecraft and political morality have found impossible to ignore. Quentin Skinner's introduction offers a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text both as a response to the world of Florentine politics and as a critical engagement with the classical and Renaissance genre of advice-books for princes. This new edition also features an improved timeline of key events in Machiavelli's life, helping the reader place the work in the context of its time, in addition to an enlarged and fully updated bibliography.

Freedom and the Construction of Europe (Hardcover, New): Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen Freedom and the Construction of Europe (Hardcover, New)
Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen
R2,592 Discovery Miles 25 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.

Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective (Paperback): Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
Richard Bourke, Quentin Skinner
R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty from antiquity to the twentieth century. First formulated between the late sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the various early modern conceptions of the doctrine were heavily indebted to Roman reflection on forms of government and Athenian ideas of popular power. This study, edited by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner, traces successive transformations of the doctrine, rather than narrating a linear development. It examines critical moments in the career of popular sovereignty, spanning antiquity, medieval Europe, the early modern wars of religion, the revolutions of the eighteenth century and their aftermath, decolonisation and mass democracy. Featuring original work by an international team of scholars, the book offers a reconsideration of one of the formative principles of contemporary politics by exploring its descent from classical city-states to the advent of the modern state.

Freedom and the Construction of Europe (Hardcover, New): Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen Freedom and the Construction of Europe (Hardcover, New)
Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen
R2,462 Discovery Miles 24 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a continent of proliferating religious denominations. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.

Visions of Politics (Hardcover, Volume 1, Regarding Method): Quentin Skinner Visions of Politics (Hardcover, Volume 1, Regarding Method)
Quentin Skinner
R2,271 Discovery Miles 22 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the leading historians of ideas in the world. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition, and these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought.

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2, The Age of Reformation (Hardcover): Quentin Skinner The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2, The Age of Reformation (Hardcover)
Quentin Skinner
R2,238 Discovery Miles 22 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account of all the principal texts of the period, discussing in turn the chief political writings of Dante, Marsiglio, Bartolus, Machiavelli, Erasmus and more, Luther and Calvin, Bodin and the Calvinist revolutionaries. But he also examines a very large number of lesser writers in order to explain the general social and intellectual context in which these leading theorists worked. He thus presents the history not as a procession of 'classic texts' but are more readily intelligible. He traces by this means the gradual emergence of the vocabulary of modern political thought, and in particular the crucial concept of the State. We are given an insight into the actual processes of the formation of ideologies and into some of the linkages between political theory and practice. 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

Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (Paperback): Nicholas Phillipson, Quentin Skinner Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (Paperback)
Nicholas Phillipson, Quentin Skinner
R1,122 R964 Discovery Miles 9 640 Save R158 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 initiated and inspired by the work of the distinguished intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, for whom the collection is intended as a tribute. Each of the sixteen contributors have thought long and critically about Pocock's seminal contributions to the subject, and in each essay they engage with the debates he has provoked. As a fitting conclusion to the volume, Professor Pocock responds to the essays and provided his personal interpretation of the themes they invoke.

Families and States in Western Europe (Hardcover): Quentin Skinner Families and States in Western Europe (Hardcover)
Quentin Skinner
R1,775 Discovery Miles 17 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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, Families and States in Western Europe follows many narratives, allowing comparisons to be drawn between different countries. The essays point to numerous convergences, illustrating how states have coped with common problems arising at the level of family life, and exploring issues such as secularism, the pressure of multiculturalist demands and the growing rejection of welfare state principles. Families and States in Western Europe will be of interest to anyone analysing relations between civil society and the modern democratic state, and the place of the family within this relationship. This collection makes a significant contribution to current political theory and to our understanding of European family life in its many different forms.

Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Quentin Skinner Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Quentin Skinner
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R263 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R51 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Niccolo 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 life, from his time as Second Chancellor of the Florentine republic, during which he met with kings, the pope, and the Holy Roman Emperor; to the fall of the republic in 1512; to his death in 1527. It was after the fall of the Republic that Machiavelli composed his main political works: The Prince, the Discourses, and The History of Florence. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction Skinner includes new material on The Prince, showing how Machiavelli developed his neo-classical political theory, through engaging in continual dialogue with the ancient Roman moralists and historians, especially Cicero and Livy. The aim of political leaders, Machiavelli argues, should be to act virtuously so far as possible, but to stand ready 'to be not good' when this course of action is dictated by necessity. Exploring the pivotal concept of princely virtu to be found in classical and Renaissance humanist texts, Skinner brings new light to Machiavelli's philosophy of a willingness to do whatever may be necessary - whether moral or otherwise -to maintain a position of power. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe - A Shared European Heritage (Paperback): Martin... Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe - A Shared European Heritage (Paperback)
Martin van Gelderen, Quentin Skinner
R1,197 Discovery Miles 11 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European traditions. Volume I focuses on the importance of anti-monarchism in Europe and analyses the relationship between citizenship and civic humanism, concluding with studies of the relationship between constitutionalism and republicanism in the period between 1500 and 1800. Volume II is devoted to the study of key republican values such as liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. This 2002 volume also addresses the role of women in European republican traditions, and contains a number of in-depth studies of the relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society in early modern Europe.

Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe - A Shared European Heritage (Paperback):... Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe - A Shared European Heritage (Paperback)
Martin van Gelderen, Quentin Skinner
R1,199 Discovery Miles 11 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European traditions. Volume I focuses on the importance of anti-monarchism in Europe and analyses the relationship between citizenship and civic humanism, concluding with studies of the relationship between constitutionalism and republicanism in the period between 1500 and 1800. Volume II, first published in 2002, is devoted to the study of key republican values such as liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. This volume also addresses the role of women in European republican traditions, and contains a number of in-depth studies of the relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society in early modern Europe.

Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe - A Shared European Heritage (Hardcover, Volume 2,... Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe - A Shared European Heritage (Hardcover, Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe)
Martin van Gelderen, Quentin Skinner
R3,014 R2,490 Discovery Miles 24 900 Save R524 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European republican traditions. Volume I looks at anti-monarchism in Europe, humanist theories of citizenship and the constitutional nature of the republic. Volume II is devoted to the study of key republican values --liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. It also addresses the role of women and relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society.

States and Citizens - History, Theory, Prospects (Paperback, New): Quentin Skinner, Bo Strath States and Citizens - History, Theory, Prospects (Paperback, New)
Quentin Skinner, Bo Strath
R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Coverage of the Western European experience is wide-ranging in this survey of perceptions of the state, its history, and prospects in the contemporary world. The greatest post-colonial democratic state, India, is also discussed as an important comparative example. Contributions by a distinguished pan-European team of authors ensure this study's value to students and teachers of the history of ideas, political theory and European studies.

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