VISIONS OF POLITICS, Volume3: Hobbes and Civil Science
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loginThe third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one ofthe world’s leading intellectual historians. This collection includessome of his most important essays on Thomas Hobbes, each ofwhich has been carefully revised for publication in this form. In aseries of writings spanning the past four decades Professor Skinnerexamines, with his customary perspicuity, the evolution and charac-ter of Hobbes’s political thought. An indispensable work in its ownright, this volume also serves as a demonstration of those method-ological theories propounded in volume, and as an appositionalcommentary on the Renaissance values of civic virtue treated involume. All of Professor Skinner’s work is characterised by philo-sophical power, limpid clarity and elegance of exposition. Theseessays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fasci-nating and convenient digest of the development of his thought.
