Liberty Before Liberalism

Name: Liberty Before Liberalism
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ISBN: 9781107689534

ISBN-10: 1107689538

ISBN-13: 9781107689534

Edition: 2012

Authors: Quentin Skinner

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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 intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds'. This essay provides one of the most substantial statements yet made about the…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.46" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English