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Visions of Politics (Volume 1) - Hardcover

Skinner, Quentin

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9780521581059: Visions of Politics (Volume 1)
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ISBN 10: 0521581052 ISBN 13: 9780521581059
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

QUENTIN SKINNER is Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521581052
ISBN 13 
9780521581059
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
228
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