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Visions of Politics

Volume 1. Regarding Method

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  • Date Published: September 2002
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  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521589260

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  • The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work. Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, and elucidates the methodology which finds its expression in his two successive volumes. 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. Professor Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474

    • The major methodological statements of one of the world's leading intellectual historians
    • Each essay revised and reset, with apparatus presented in consistent form
    • Numerous classic pieces, collected together for the first time
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    Awards

    • Winner of the 2007 David Easton Award - Foundation of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association

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    'Quentin Skinner is one of the world's foremost historians of political thought … As a retrospective showcase of the work of a major scholar, this is impressive. Skinner's ability to combine political and philosophical insight with minute knowledge of several centuries of political literature is awe inspiring.' Robert Sugden, The Times Higher Education Supplement

    ' … this is a deeply impressive collection which displays Skinner's exceptional range.' The New York Review

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    Product details

    • Date Published: September 2002
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521589260
    • length: 225 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 151 x 17 mm
    • weight: 0.377kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    General preface
    Full contents: volumes 1–3
    Acknowledgements
    Conventions
    Volume 1: Regarding Method:
    1. Introduction: seeing things their way
    2. The practice of history and the cult of the fact
    3. Interpretation, rationality and truth
    4. Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas
    5. Motives, intentions and interpretation
    6. Interpretation and the understanding of speech acts
    7. 'Social meaning' and the explanation of social action
    8. Moral principles and social change
    9. The idea of a cultural lexicon
    10. Retrospect: studying rhetoric and conceptual change
    Bibliography
    Index.

  • Author

    Quentin Skinner, University of Cambridge
    QUENTIN SKINNER is Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College.

    Awards

    • Winner of the 2007 David Easton Award - Foundation of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association

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