Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner by David Levine

Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University. His most recent books are Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes and Liberty Before Liberalism. (November 2000)

From the Review

November 4, 1999: The Advancement of Francis Bacon*

Philosophical Studies c.1611-c.1619 by Francis Bacon, edited by Graham Rees

Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon by Lisa Jardine, by Alan Stewart

Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination by Nieves Mathews

Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626 by B.H.G. Wormald

Francis Bacon by Perez Zagorin

April 4, 1996: Bringing Back a New Hobbes*

The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes edited by Noel Malcolm

Three Discourses: A Critical Modern Edition of Newly Identified Work of the Young Hobbes by Thomas Hobbes, edited by Noel B Reynolds, edited by Arlene W Saxonhouse

April 12, 1990: The Past in the Present*

Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen Toulmin

March 14, 1985: Ms. Machiavelli*

Fortune Is a Woman by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

October 7, 1982: Habermas's Reformation*

The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School by Raymond Geuss

Knowledge and Human Interests by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Jeremy Shapiro

Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Jeremy Shapiro

Theory and Practice by Jürgen Habermas, translated by John Viertel

Legitimation Crisis by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Thomas McCarthy

Communication and the Evolution of Society by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Thomas McCarthy

Theorie der Gesellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie by Jürgen Habermas, by Niklas Luhmann

The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas by Thomas McCarthy

Habermas: Critical Debates edited by John B. Thompson, edited by David Held

November 5, 1981: Not Greek to Them (letter)

April 16, 1981: The World as a Stage*

Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali by Clifford Geertz

March 19, 1981: The End of Philosophy?*

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty

January 24, 1980: The Flying University (letter)

January 24, 1980: Duellist*

Reappraisals in History: New Views on History and Society in Early Modern Europe by J.H. Hexter

On Historians: Reappraisals of Some of the Masters of Modern History by J.H. Hexter

March 22, 1979: Taking Off*

World Accumulation, 1492-1789 by Andre Gunder Frank

The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century edited by Geoffrey Parker, edited by Lesley M. Smith

Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule by Reinhard Bendix

October 12, 1978: The Lesson of Thomas More*

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 2: The History of King Richard III edited by Richard S. Sylvester

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 3 (Part I): Translations of Lucian edited by Craig R. Thompson

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 4: Utopia edited by Edward Surtz, edited by S. J. and J. H. Hexter

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 5: Responsio ad Lutherum edited by John M. Headley, translated by Sister Scholastica Mandeville

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 8: The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer edited by Louis A. Schuster, edited by Richard C. Marius, edited by James P. Lusardi, edited by Richard J. Schoeck

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 12: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation edited by Louis L. Martz, edited by Frank Manley

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 13: Treatise on the Passion; Treatise on the Blessed Body; Instructions and Prayers edited by Garry E. Haupt

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 14 (Parts I and I): De Tristitia Christi edited by Clarence H. Miller

Utopia by Thomas More, translated and edited by Robert M. Adams

June 15, 1978: The Flight from Positivism*

The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory by Richard J. Bernstein

March 23, 1978: Milton, Satan, and Subversion*

Milton and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill

Books by Quentin Skinner

Liberty Before Liberalism (1998)
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (1996)
Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Artist As Political Philosopher (1986)
Machiavelli (1981)
Machiavelli (1981)
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978)