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)
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The Advancement of Francis Bacon
November 4, 1999
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
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Bringing Back a New Hobbes
April 4, 1996
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
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The Past in the Present
April 12, 1990
Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
by Stephen Toulmin
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Ms. Machiavelli
March 14, 1985
Fortune Is a Woman
by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
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Habermas’s Reformation
October 7, 1982
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
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Not Greek to Them
November 5, 1981
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The World as a Stage
April 16, 1981
Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali by Clifford Geertz
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The End of Philosophy?
March 19, 1981
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
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The Flying University
January 24, 1980
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Duellist
January 24, 1980
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
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Taking Off
March 22, 1979
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
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The Lesson of Thomas More
October 12, 1978
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
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The Flight from Positivism
June 15, 1978
The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory
by Richard J. Bernstein
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Milton, Satan, and Subversion
March 23, 1978
Milton and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill