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Thinking About Liberty: an Historian's Approach by Quentin Skineer
Thinking About Liberty: an Historian's Approach by Quentin Skineer
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In Thinking About Liberty: An Historian’s Approach, the eminent historian Quentin Skinner traces a path in the history of ideas that involves different ways of thinking about liberty – a central concept in social and political thought in today’s Western democracies – that are different from the usual liberal expectation. The definition of freedom as the absence of interference (by external agencies or by the self ), though widespread, was by no means the only one prevailing. Skinner discusses two other distinct strands in the genealogy of modern liberty, besides that mentioned, namely freedom as an absence of dependence (as in the freeman or free man vs slave) and freedom as self-realisation. Skinner’s concern is to call attention to these ways of thinking about freedom that are lately in danger of being forgotten. The lecture also presents Skinner’s 2006 Balzan Prize research project, which involved young European scholars in addressing questions about the place of civil, religious and political liberty in the formation of modern Europe.

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Regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought, between 1996 and 2008 Quentin Skinner was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge; he is currently the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.
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March 31st, 2018
Pages
78
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  • Professional & Vocational
ISBN-13
9788822264602
Product ID
27599939

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