Liberty Before Liberalism
Title | Liberty Before Liberalism PDF eBook |
Author | Quentin Skinner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2012-03-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107689538 |
Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.
Liberty Before Liberalism
Title | Liberty Before Liberalism PDF eBook |
Author | Quentin Skinner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521638760 |
This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early-modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds'. This essay thus provides one of the most substantial statements yet made about the importance, relevance and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry. Liberty before Liberalism is based on Quentin Skinner's Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, delivered in November 1997. 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
Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism
Title | Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Dawson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2022-02-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108844561 |
Reflects on histories of freedom and republicanism through a major new reappraisal of Quentin Skinner's Liberty before Liberalism.
Freedom
Title | Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Annelien De Dijn |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2020-08-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0674245598 |
Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year “Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold radically different understandings of its meaning...This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.” —Publishers Weekly “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brings remarkable clarity to a big and messy subject...New insights and hard-hitting conclusions about the resistance to democracy make this essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of our current dilemmas.” —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why It Matters For centuries people in the West identified freedom with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. The equation of liberty with restraints on state power—what most people today associate with freedom—was a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking. So what triggered this fateful reversal? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of Western thinking about freedom, Annelien de Dijn argues that this was not the natural outcome of such secular trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the French and American Revolutions. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries who created our modern democracies—it was first conceived by their critics and opponents. De Dijn shows that far from following in the path of early American patriots, today’s critics of “big government” owe more to the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.
Hobbes and Republican Liberty
Title | Hobbes and Republican Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Quentin Skinner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-02-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521886767 |
A dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty.
Demopolis
Title | Demopolis PDF eBook |
Author | Josiah Ober |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2017-07-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316510360 |
What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? These questions are examined by this book.
The Invention of Market Freedom
Title | The Invention of Market Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Eric MacGilvray |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2011-06-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139498959 |
How did the value of freedom become so closely associated with the institution of the market? Why did the idea of market freedom hold so little appeal before the modern period and how can we explain its rise to dominance? In The Invention of Market Freedom, Eric MacGilvray addresses these questions by contrasting the market conception of freedom with the republican view that it displaced. After analyzing the ethical core and exploring the conceptual complexity of republican freedom, MacGilvray shows how this way of thinking was confronted with, altered in response to, and finally overcome by the rise of modern market societies. By learning to see market freedom as something that was invented, we can become more alert to the ways in which the appeal to freedom shapes and distorts our thinking about politics.