Visions of politics . Volume 2 Renaissance virtues / / Quentin Skinner

• Autore: Skinner Quentin
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 461 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 320/.01
• Soggetto topico: Political science; Political science - Philosophy
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Plates; General preface; Full Contents: Volumes 1...3; Acknowledgements; Conventions; 1 Introduction: The reality of the Renaissance; 2 The rediscovery of republican values; 3 Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the portrayal of virtuous government; 4 Ambrogio Lorenzetti on the power and glory of republics; 5 Republican virtues in an age of princes; 6 Machiavelli on virtù and the maintenance of liberty; 7 The idea of negative liberty: Machiavellian and modern perspectives; 8 Thomas More s Utopia and the virtue of true nobility ; 9 Humanism, scholasticism and popular sovereignty10 Moral ambiguity and the Renaissance art of eloquence; 11 John Milton and the politics of slavery; 12 Classical liberty, Renaissance translation and the English civil war; 13 Augustan party politics and Renaissance constitutional thought; 14 From the state of princes to the person of the state; Bibliographies; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Visions of politics
• ISBN: 1-107-12731-9; 1-280-41864-8; 9786610418640; 0-511-61377-6; 0-511-17774-7; 0-511-14815-1; 0-511-32264-X; 0-511-05390-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782909203321
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