Skinner, Quentin 1940-

The foundations of modern political thought / Renaissance. Age of reformation. Quentin Skinner - Cambridge, Eng. ; New York, N.Y. ; Melbourne, Australia : Cambridge University Press, 1998 - 2 volumes ; 24 cm

v. 1. THE RENAISSANCE --
Part one: The origins of the Renaissance --
The ideal of liberty --
Rhetoric and liberty --
Scholasticism and liberty --
Part two: The Italian Renaissance --
The Florentine Renaissance --
The age of princes --
The survival of Republican values --
Part three: The Northern Renaissance --
The diffusion of humanist scholarship --
The reception of humanist political thought --
The humanist critique of humanism --
Bibliography of primary sources --
Bibliography of secondary sources --
Index --
v. 2. THE AGE OF REFORMATION --
Part one: Absolutism and the Lutheran Reformation --
The principles of Lutheranism --
The forerunners of Lutheranism --
The spread of Lutheranism --
Part two: Constitutionalism and the Counter Reformation --
The background of constitutionalism --
The revival of Thomism --
The limits of constitutionalism --
Part three: Calvinism and the theory of Revolution --
The duty to resist --
The context of the Huguenot revolution --
The right to resist --
Bibliography of primary sources --
Bibliography of secondary sources --
Index.

The two volumes of The Foundations of Modern Political Thought are intended as both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. -- Book Cover.

0521293375 (v.1) 9780521293372 (v.1)


Ciencia política --Historia
Ciencia política --Filosofía
Ciencia política --Teorías

JA 81 / S628f 1998

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