Visions of Politics : Regarding Method (Volume 1) - Softcover

Skinner, Quentin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521589266 ISBN 13: 9780521589260

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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Book Description

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.

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521589266
• ISBN 13: 9780521589260
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 225