Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) lehrte, dass Politiker bereit sein müssen, unmoralisch zu handeln...

Quentin Skinner ist einer der profiliertesten Historiker der Gegenwart und führender Kopf der 'Ca...

Quentin Skinner ist einer der weltweit bedeutendsten Historiker der politischen Theorie und Ideen...

This book provides an overview of 200 years of German economic thought from the Staatswissenschaf...

Freedom and the Construction of Europe

What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global...

This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavat...

The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early...

Coverage of the Western European experience is wide-ranging in this survey of perceptions of the ...

This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so debatable when it c...

It is a commonplace of modern scholarship that there was no general theory of language available ...

Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells the history of English political thought from 19...

'An analysis of the thought of one of the most wide-ranging and influential theorists of the 'Eng...

The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual ...

Some of the world's foremost historians of ideas consider Machiavelli's political thought in the ...

A dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty.

Tracing the influence of ancient Greek sources on the development of republican theory in Europe ...

This book examines the genesis of Lutheran interest in natural philosophical issues by focusing o...

This book brings together Professor Tully's most original and innovative statements on the politi...

This study investigates the philosophical and political significance of Judaism in the intellectu...

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth cent...

This is a wide-ranging exploration of the similarities and differences between ancient Greek and ...

This study traces the continuity of Christian humanism in the social thought of English protestants.

This major addition to Ideas in Context examines the development of natural law theories in the e...

How or what were doctors in the Renaissance trained to think, and how did they interpret the evid...

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British concept...

This book provides a way to understand a momentous development in human intellectual history: the...

In The Ambitions of Curiosity, first published in 2002, one of the world's foremost philosophers ...

Inspired by the work of intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, this 1993 collection explores the...

The aspiration to relate the past' as it really happened' has been the central goal of American p...

The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual ...

Arguments about the practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. Markku Peltonen...

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first c...

An innovative study of the development of systematic inquiry in ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, and ...

This collection of essays traces the relationship between families and states in the major countr...

Historians and literary critics offer a comprehensive thematic assessment of Milton's political a...

A study of Russell's social and political thought in its intellectual and cultural context.

A study of the importance of the language of rights during three crucial periods in American hist...

The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual ...

This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular so...

Compelling narrative of a fundamental idea in political economy and its implications.

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth cent...

Using newly discovered material, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism.

Essays on the political 'languages' of natural law, classical republicanism, commerce and politic...

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first c...

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early m...

The past quarter of a century has seen dramatic developments in social and political thought. Thi...

Civic Humanism has been one of the most influential concepts in the history of ideas ever since t...