Author: Quentin Skinner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139433180
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
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 series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work. Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, and elucidates the methodology which finds its expression in his two successive volumes. 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. 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
Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method
Author: Quentin Skinner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139433180
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
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 series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work. Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, and elucidates the methodology which finds its expression in his two successive volumes. 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. 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
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139433180
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
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 series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work. Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, and elucidates the methodology which finds its expression in his two successive volumes. 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. 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
Liberty Before Liberalism
Author: Quentin Skinner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107689538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107689538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.
Visions of Politics
Author: Quentin Skinner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This collection of philosophical and methodological statements, written between the 1960s and 2000, considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This collection of philosophical and methodological statements, written between the 1960s and 2000, considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation.
Political Thought and History
Author: J. G .A. Pocock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521886570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Selected essays of arguably the greatest and most influential historian of ideas of modern times.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521886570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Selected essays of arguably the greatest and most influential historian of ideas of modern times.
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
Author: Quentin Skinner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521554367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521554367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.
Fire and Ashes
Author: Michael Ignatieff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067472965X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada's Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. He describes what he learned from his bruising defeat about compromise and the necessity of bridging differences in a pluralist society. A reflective, compelling account of modern politics as it really is.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067472965X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada's Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. He describes what he learned from his bruising defeat about compromise and the necessity of bridging differences in a pluralist society. A reflective, compelling account of modern politics as it really is.
Modernity At Large
Author: Arjun Appadurai
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900063
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900063
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Religion and the State
Author: Joshua B. Stein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739171569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans-Atlantic approach to the history of church-state relations in the modern West. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the formative period for modern church-states relations we see vividly the complex interrelationship of developments from England, France, and America. Ever since, historians and political figures have compared the European and American efforts to discern the proper role of religion in government and government in religion. This work is an effort to illuminate that role or at the very least to bring to light the innumerable ways in which such roles were formed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739171569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans-Atlantic approach to the history of church-state relations in the modern West. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the formative period for modern church-states relations we see vividly the complex interrelationship of developments from England, France, and America. Ever since, historians and political figures have compared the European and American efforts to discern the proper role of religion in government and government in religion. This work is an effort to illuminate that role or at the very least to bring to light the innumerable ways in which such roles were formed.
Liberty, Authority, Formality
Author: John Morrow
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1845403975
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The essays in this volume are all inspired by the historical scholarship of J.C. Davis. During a prolific career, Davis has transformed our understanding of early modern utopian literature and its contexts, and compelled students of seventeenth-century English to re-evaluate the significance of movements and individuals who have had a prominent place in the historiography of the English Revolution. Davis's analyses of groups like the Levellers and individuals like Gerrard Winstanley and Oliver Cromwell has reoriented the inquiry around the contemporary moral themes of liberty, authority and formality-around which concepts this volume engages.
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1845403975
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The essays in this volume are all inspired by the historical scholarship of J.C. Davis. During a prolific career, Davis has transformed our understanding of early modern utopian literature and its contexts, and compelled students of seventeenth-century English to re-evaluate the significance of movements and individuals who have had a prominent place in the historiography of the English Revolution. Davis's analyses of groups like the Levellers and individuals like Gerrard Winstanley and Oliver Cromwell has reoriented the inquiry around the contemporary moral themes of liberty, authority and formality-around which concepts this volume engages.
Politics of Radical Democracy
Author: Little Adrian Little
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470300
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book addresses the idea of radical democracy and, in particular, its poststructuralist articulation. It analyses the approach to radical democracy taken by a number of contemporary theorists and political commentators:, including Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, William Connolly, Jacques Ranciere, Claude Lefort, Sheldon Wolin, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri, and Giorgio Agamben. By examining critically the critiques accounts of democracy advanced by these theorists, this volume explores how a more radically conceived theory of democracy might be extended in a more egalitarian and inclusive direction.developed.The strand of radical democracy examined in this book is defined by a number of characteristics:*Democracy is conceptualised understood as a fugitive condition, being open to perpetual disruption and reinvention*The relationship between the state and civil society is regarded as the site where the open-ended 'promise' of democracy is fought out*There is an emphasis on questions of political renewal*There is a deep suspicion of identity-based political claims*Politics is conceived as either the site of or as one of the mechanisms for identity construction* Democratic politics is understood as a politics of contestation and disagreement* Democracy is regarded as always at least partially conflictual and not a means through which violence and conflict can be permanently eradicated*There is a deep suspicion of identity-based political claims*The political is assumed to be ontologically conflictual, with such conflict being understood as ultimately ineradicable from politics, though the form it takes necessarily varies from time to time and context to contextThe book clarifies the concept of radical democracy by mapping the field, and elaborates it further through a critical engagement with the works of its key proponents. In addition, it draws on the insights of radical democratic theory to explore a range of concre
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470300
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book addresses the idea of radical democracy and, in particular, its poststructuralist articulation. It analyses the approach to radical democracy taken by a number of contemporary theorists and political commentators:, including Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, William Connolly, Jacques Ranciere, Claude Lefort, Sheldon Wolin, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri, and Giorgio Agamben. By examining critically the critiques accounts of democracy advanced by these theorists, this volume explores how a more radically conceived theory of democracy might be extended in a more egalitarian and inclusive direction.developed.The strand of radical democracy examined in this book is defined by a number of characteristics:*Democracy is conceptualised understood as a fugitive condition, being open to perpetual disruption and reinvention*The relationship between the state and civil society is regarded as the site where the open-ended 'promise' of democracy is fought out*There is an emphasis on questions of political renewal*There is a deep suspicion of identity-based political claims*Politics is conceived as either the site of or as one of the mechanisms for identity construction* Democratic politics is understood as a politics of contestation and disagreement* Democracy is regarded as always at least partially conflictual and not a means through which violence and conflict can be permanently eradicated*There is a deep suspicion of identity-based political claims*The political is assumed to be ontologically conflictual, with such conflict being understood as ultimately ineradicable from politics, though the form it takes necessarily varies from time to time and context to contextThe book clarifies the concept of radical democracy by mapping the field, and elaborates it further through a critical engagement with the works of its key proponents. In addition, it draws on the insights of radical democratic theory to explore a range of concre