From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781107128859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 444 str.

Quentin Skinner

Opis

Offers new insights into the works of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and especially Hobbes by focusing on their use of rhetoric.

Recenzje

'Skinner provides a masterful survey of these laws and institutions, including the canny and pragmatic use of religious observance to foster virtù among citizens.' Victoria Kahn, Springer journals

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. Classical rhetoric and the personation of the state; 3. Machiavelli on misunderstanding princely virtù; 4. Judicial rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice; 5. Rhetorical redescription and its uses in Shakespeare; 6. The generation of John Milton at Cambridge; 7. Rethinking liberty in the English revolution; 8. Hobbes on civil conversation; 9. Hobbes on political representation; 10. Hobbes and the humanist frontispiece; 11. Hobbes on hereditary right; 12. Hobbes and the concept of the state; Bibliographies; Manuscript sources; Primary printed sources; Secondary sources; Index.