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Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00The 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 of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. more...
Visions of Politics: Volume 2, Renaissance Virtues
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00The 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 work on the political thought of the Italian renaissance, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. more...
Visions of Politics: Volume 3, Hobbes and Civil Science
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 27.00The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important work on the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. more...
Machiavelli
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99Niccolo Machiavelli's name has become a byword for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? Quentin Skinner focuses on "The Prince", the "Discourses", and "The History of Florence", and distils from them an introduction to Machiavelli's doctrines. more...
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 32.00An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers. more...
Families and States in Western Europe
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 25.00This collection examines the relationship between families, states and civil society in the major countries of Western Europe since 1945. more...
Die drei Körper des Staates
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 8.68Hauptbeschreibung Verfolgt man die Geschichte der Vorstellungen vom Staat, stellt man fest, dass es nie ein übereinstimmendes Konzept gab, worauf sich der Begriff Staat bezog. Quentin Skinner, einer der renommiertesten Forscher auf dem Feld der politischen Denkmuster, entwickelt im Anschluss an Kantorowicz' vielzitierte Ausführungen zu den "zwei... more...
Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European... more...
Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European... more...
Thomas Hobbes
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 38.99This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment 'Questions relative to Hereditary Right', discovered and edited by Quentin Skinner. As a critique of common law by a great... more...









