Visions of Politics

Quentin Skinner0-511-04243-4, 0-521-81368-9

The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world’s leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of writings spanning the past four decades Professor Skinner examines, with his customary perspicuity, the evolution and character of Hobbes’s political thought. An indispensable work in its own right, this volume also serves as a demonstration of those methodological theories propounded in Volume I, and as an appositional commentary on the Renaissance values of civic virtue treated in Volume II. 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.

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Table of contents :
General preface……Page 8
Full contents……Page 11
Acknowledgements……Page 13
Conventions……Page 16
I Introduction: Hobbes’s life in philosophy……Page 20
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II……Page 58
III……Page 66
IV……Page 71
V……Page 76
VI……Page 79
VII……Page 84
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II……Page 91
III……Page 98
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II……Page 109
III……Page 117
IV……Page 122
V……Page 132
VI……Page 143
VII……Page 148
VIII……Page 153
II……Page 161
III……Page 170
IV……Page 179
V……Page 184
VI……Page 190
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III……Page 206
IV……Page 215
V……Page 223
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III……Page 235
IV……Page 244
V……Page 251
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III……Page 266
IV……Page 275
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IV……Page 295
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VI……Page 304
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IV……Page 321
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III……Page 350
IV……Page 353
V……Page 357
VI……Page 363
Bibliographies……Page 365
Index……Page 398