Hobbes and Republican Liberty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521714167)

Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first originated in classical antiquity, and lay at the heart of the Roman republican tradition of public life. Thomas Hobbes was the most formidable enemy of this pattern of thought, and his successive attempts to discredit it constitute a truly epochal moment in the history of Anglophone political thought. Hobbes and Republican Liberty develops several of the themes announced by Quentin Skinner in his celebrated inaugural lecture on Liberty before Liberalism of 1997. Cogent, engaged, accessible, and indeed exhilarating, this new book will appeal to readers of history, politics, and philosophy at all levels from upper-undergraduate upwards, and provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time.

Author: Quentin Skinner
ISBN-10: 0521714168
ISBN-13: 9780521714167
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2008
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
London Review of Books 09/25/2008 pg. 3
New York Review of Books 07/16/2009 pg. 40