Visions of politics. Volume 3, Hobbes and civil science /

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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Skinner, Quentin
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2002.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112662
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General preface; Full contents: Volumes I ... 3; Acknowledgements; Conventions; 1 Introduction: Hobbes's life in philosophy; 2 Hobbes and the studia humanitatis; 3 Hobbes's changing conception of civil science; 4 Hobbes on rhetoric and the construction of morality; 5 Hobbes and the classical theory of laughter; 6 Hobbes and the purely artificial person of the state; 7 Hobbes on the proper signification of liberty; 8 History and ideology in the English revolution; 9 The context of Hobbes s theory of political obligation.
  • 10 Conquest and consent: Hobbes and the engagement controversy11 Hobbes and his disciples in France and England; 12 Hobbes and the politics of the early Royal Society; Bibliographies; CHATSWORTH, DERBYSHIRE; PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index.