Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain
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- Nicholas Phillipson, University of Edinburgh
- Quentin Skinner, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: April 2011
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Originally published in 1993, this collection of essays, all by pre-eminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain. Organised on a broadly chronological basis, the topics addressed by individual scholars reflect in general the themes initiated and inspired by the work of the distinguished intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, for whom the collection is intended as a tribute. Each of the sixteen contributors have thought long and critically about Pocock's seminal contributions to the subject, and in each essay they engage with the debates he has provoked. As a fitting conclusion to the volume, Professor Pocock responds to the essays and provided his personal interpretation of the themes they invoke.
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- Important subject area dominated by the honorand of the volume, J. G. A. Pocock
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Review of the hardback: 'This volume is then two things at once: a tribute to the immense and continuing achievement of John Pocock; and an attempt to identify alternative agendas within which to locate and to understand the malleability of early modern political thought. It is to be welcomed for both, and even more for the dialectic it has set up between them.' Times Literary Supplement John Morrill
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511877919
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I:
1. George Buchanan and the Anti-Monarchomachs J. H. Burns
2. The ancient constitution revisited William Klein
3. Arminianism: the controversy that never was William Lamont
4. Scienta civilis in classical rhetoric and in the early Hobbes Quentin Skinner
Part II:
5. Parliamentary sovereignty: a very English absolutism Michael Mendle
6. The civil religion of Thomas Hobbes Richard Tuck
7. The rapture of motion: James Harrington's republicanism Jonathan Scott
8. Casuistry to Newcastle: The Prince in the world of the book Conal Condren
Part III:
9. Between Lambeth and Leviathan: Samuel Parker on the Church of England and political order Gordon J. Schochet
10. Priestcraft and the birth of Whiggism Mark Goldie
11. The right to resist: Whig resistance theory in the Revolution of 1688–9 Lois G. Schwoerer
12. Placing the Two Treatises James Tully
Part IV:
13. Shaftesbury, politeness and the politics of religion Lawrence Klein
14. Propriety, property and prudence: David Hume and the defence of the revolution Nicholas Phillipson
15. The rhapsody of public debt: David Hume and the voluntary state bankruptcy Istvan Hont
16. Universal monarchy and the liberties of Europe: David Hume's critique of an English Whig doctrine John Robertson
Part V:
17. A discourse of sovereignty: observations on the work in progress J. G. A. Pocock
A bibliography of the writings of J. G. A. Pocock
Index.
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