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Liberty before Liberalism (Canto Classics)
Quentin Skinner
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Paperback. Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: JPFK; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 228. Series: Canto Classics. 156 pages. Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JPFK; JPVH. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 8. Weight: 236.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
156
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Canto Classics
Condition
New
Weight
225g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107689534
SKU
V9781107689534
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