1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783129403321

Autore

Skinner Quentin

Titolo

Visions of politics . Volume 1 Regarding method / / Quentin Skinner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-139-93047-8

1-107-12729-7

1-280-41714-5

0-511-79081-3

0-511-17760-7

1-139-14577-0

0-511-06579-5

0-511-05948-5

0-511-30509-5

0-511-06792-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Visions of politics ; ; v.1

Disciplina

320/.01

Soggetti

Political science

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General preface; Full Contents: Volumes 1-3; Acknowledgements; Conventions; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970095703321

Autore

Bach Rebecca Ann

Titolo

Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality / / by R. Bach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

9786611363253

9781281363251

1281363251

9780230603639

0230603637

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

822.33

822/.309353

Soggetti

Poetry

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

European literature

Poetry and Poetics

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Before Heterosexuality; 1 The Homosocial King Lear: Sex, Men, and Women before the Valorization of Lust and Greed; 2 Restoration Shakespeare I: Adultery and the Birth of Heterosexuality; 3 Restoration Shakespeare 2: Friends and Libertines; 4 "Domestic Tragedy" and Emerging Heterosexuality; 5 Othello in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and the Colonial Origins of Heterosexuality; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Shakespeare has been misread for centuries as having modern ideas about sex and gender.This book shows how in the Restoration and Eighteenth century, Shakespeare's plays and other Renaissance texts were adapted to make them conform to these modern ideas.Through readings of Shakespearean texts, including King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and Othello, and other Renaissance drama, the book reveals a sexual world before heterosexuality. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality shows how revisions and criticism of Renaissance drama contributed to the emergence of heterosexuality.It also shows how changing ideas about status, adultery, friendship, and race were factors in that emergence.