Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism
Published on 31. January 2022
978-1-108-95624-6 (ISBN)
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Opens up new histories of freedom and republicanism by building on Quentin Skinner's ground-breaking Liberty before Liberalism nearly twenty five years after its initial publication. Leading historians and philosophers reveal the neo-Roman conception of liberty that Skinner unearthed as a normative and historical hermeneutic tool of enormous, ongoing power. The volume thinks with neo-Romanism to offer reinterpretations of individual thinkers, such as Montaigne, Grotius and Locke. It probes the role of neo-Roman liberty within hierarchies and structures beyond that of citizen and state - namely, gender, slavery, and democracy. Finally, it reassesses the relationships between neo-Romanism and other languages in the history of political thought: liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and the human rights tradition. The volume concludes with a major reappraisal by Skinner himself.
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English
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5,89 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-95624-6 (9781108956246)
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Hannah Dawson | Annelien de Dijn
Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism
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02/2022
Cambridge University Press
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