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Hobbes and Republican Liberty

Paperback • 2008 • English

Hobbes and Republican Liberty

By Quentin Skinner

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About the book

Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first originated in classical antiquity, and lay at the heart of the Roman republican tradition of public life. Thomas Hobbes was the most formidable enemy of this pattern of thought, and his successive attempts to discredit it constitute a truly epochal moment in the history of Anglophone political thoug...Show more

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9780521714167

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Hobbes and Republican Liberty

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Paperback

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