Liberty before liberalism

by Skinner, Quentin

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Summary

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 different possible worlds'. This essay thus provides one of the most substantial statements yet made about the importance, relevance and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001.
Edition:Reprinted

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge Univ. Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

The Physical Object

Description:XIV, 142 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521632064, 9780521632065, 0521638763, 9780521638760
oclc:ocn249104216
LC Classification:JC585
Dewey Decimal:941.06

Subjects

Freiheit ; SWD-ID: 40183269 Freiheit der Person Freiheitsrecht Grossbritannien Liberalism Liberalismus Liberalismus -- Geschichte Liberalismus ; SWD-ID: 40355822 Liberty Politische Theorie Republikanismus