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Thinking about liberty : an historian's approach / by Quentin Skinner, 2006 Balzan Prizewinner.

Title
Thinking about liberty : an historian's approach / by Quentin Skinner, 2006 Balzan Prizewinner.
Author
Skinner, Quentin,
Publication
Firenze : Leo S. Olschki, 2016.

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75 pages : color illustrated; 24 cm.
Summary
Contemporary political theorists frequently say that there is only one coherent way of thinking about liberty, and that it consists in recognising that an individual is free so long as there is no interference with the exercise of his or her powers. In Thinking About Liberty: An Historian's Approach, Quentin Skinner shows that this is mere dogma by tracing a genealogy that considers different ways of thinking about liberty, a central concept in social and political thought in today's Western democracies. He isolates three distinct strands in the genealogy of modern liberty, including the above mentioned freedom as absence of interference (by external agencies or by the self), as well as two alternatives: freedom as absence of dependence (as in liber homo vs slave status) and freedom as self-realisation. In speaking as an historian, Skinner's chief concern is to excavate a way of thinking about freedom that has lately been in danger of getting lost. The lecture also presents Skinner's 2006 Balzan Prize research project, which involved young European scholars to address questions about the place of civil, religious and political liberty in the formation of modern Europe.
Series Statement
The annual Balzan lecture ; 7
Uniform Title
Annual Balzan lecture ; 7.
Subject
  • Freiheit
  • Liberty > History
  • Liberty
  • Politische Philosophie
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 9788822264602
  • 8822264606
LCCN
2016473460
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries