Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Name: Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought
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ISBN: 9780521615037

ISBN-10: 0521615038

ISBN-13: 9780521615037

Edition: 2006

Authors: Annabel Brett, James Tully, Holly Hamilton-Bleakley

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Quentin Skinner's classic study of The Foundations of Modern Political Thought was first published by Cambridge in 1978. This was the first of a series of outstanding publications that have changed forever the way the history of political thought is taught and practiced. Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought looks afresh at the impact of the original work, asks why it still matters, and considers a number of significant agendas that it still inspires. A very distinguished international team of contributors has been assembled, including Professors Pocock, Tuck and Armitage, and the result is an unusually powerful and cohesive contribution to the history of ideas, of interest…

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.34" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Annabel S. Brett is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is the author of "Liberty, Right, and Nature" and a new translation of Marsilius of Padua's "Defender of the Peace".

Holly Hamilton-Bleakley is an independent scholar.



List of contributors


Preface




Introduction



The context of The Foundations




Linguistic philosophy and The Foundations




Rethinking the foundations



Foundations and moments




Skinner, pre-humanist rhetorical culture and Machiavelli




Unoriginal authors: how to do things with texts in the Renaissance




'The Best State of the Commonwealth': Thomas More and Quentin Skinner




Scholasticism in Quentin Skinner's Foundations




Scholastic political thought and the modern concept of the state




'So meerly humane': theories of resistance in early-modern Europe




Hobbes and democracy




A lion in the house: Hobbes and democracy




Hobbes and the foundations of modern international thought




Surveying The Foundations: a retrospect and reassessment



Bibliography


Index