Visions of Politics

by Quentin Skinner

• ISBN13: 9780521589253
• ISBN10: 0521589258
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world’s leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on the political thought of the Italian renaissance, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. 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.Professer 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

Table of Contents

List of plates	vii
General preface	ix
Full contents: Volume 1--3	xii
Acknowledgements	xiv
Conventions	xvii
Introduction: The reality of the Renaissance	1	(9)
The rediscovery of republican values	10	(29)
Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the portrayal of virtuous government	39	(54)
Ambrogio Lorenzetti on the power and glory of republics	93	(25)
Republican virtues in an age of princes	118	(42)
Machiavelli on virtu and the maintenance of liberty	160	(26)
The idea of negative liberty: Machiavellian and modern perspectives	186	(27)
Thomas More's Utopia and the virtue of true nobility	213	(32)
Humanism, Scholasticism and popular sovereignty	245	(19)
Moral ambiguity and the Renaissance art of eloquence	264	(22)
John Milton and the politics of slavery	286	(22)
Classical liberty, Renaissance translation and the English civil war	308	(36)
Augustan party politics and Renaissance constitutional thought	344	(24)
From the state of princes to the person of the state	368	(46)
Bibliographies	414	(37)
Index	451