Rethinking The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

by Edited by Annabel Brett , James Tully , With Holly Hamilton-Bleakley

• ISBN13: 9780521615037
• ISBN10: 0521615038
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Quentin Skinner's classic study The Foundations of Modern Political Thought was first published by Cambridge in 1978. This was the first of a series of outstanding publications that have changed forever the way the history of political thought is taught and practised. Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought looks afresh at the impact of the original work, asks why it still matters, and considers a number of significant agendas that it still inspires. A very distinguished international team of contributors has been assembled, including John Pocock, RichardTuck and David Armitage, and the result is an unusually powerful and cohesive contribution to the history of ideas, of interest to large numbers of students of early modern history and political thought. In conclusion, Skinner replies to each chapter and presents his own thoughts on the latest trends and the future direction of the history of political thought.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
Introduction
The context of The Foundations	p. 3
Linguistic philosophy and The Foundations	p. 20
Rethinking the foundations
Foundations and moments	p. 37
Skinner, pre-humanist rhetorical culture and Machiavelli	p. 50
Unoriginal authors: how to do things with texts in the Renaissance	p. 73
'The Best State of the Commonwealth': Thomas More and Quentin Skinner	p. 93
Scholasticism in Quentin Skinner's Foundations	p. 113
Scholastic political thought and the modern concept of the state	p. 130
'So meerly humane': theories of resistance in early-modern Europe	p. 149
Hobbes and democracy	p. 171
A lion in the house: Hobbes and democracy	p. 191
Hobbes and the foundations of modern international thought	p. 219
Surveying The Foundations: a retrospect and reassessment	p. 236
Bibliography	p. 262
Index	p. 288
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