Visions of politics . Volume 1 Regarding method / / Quentin Skinner [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Skinner Quentin
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 320/.01
• Soggetto topico: Political science; Political science - Philosophy
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• 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 ; BibliographyIndex
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Visions of politics
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450390903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II