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Liberty Before Liberalism
Quentin Skinner
出版Cambridge University Press, 1998
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Social HistoryPolitical Science / Civil RightsPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / Political FreedomPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
ISBN05216387639780521638760
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=w1VyEwGpKGEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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