VISIONS OF POLITICS, Volume1: Regarding Method
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loginThe first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one ofthe world’s leading intellectual historians. This collection includessome of his most important philosophical and methodological state-ments written over the past four decades, each carefully revised forpublication in this form. In a series of seminal essays ProfessorSkinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work.Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical diffi-culties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, andelucidates the methodology which finds its expression in his twosucceeding volumes. All of Professor Skinner’s work is characterisedby philosophical power, limpid clarity and elegance of exposition.These essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide afascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought.
