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Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner

Historian of political thought: reading past texts in their own arguments, and what liberty meant to the people who first argued about it.

Oldham, United Kingdom English Trust score 90/100 4.81 (24 reviews)
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About Quentin Skinner

My method is simple to state and slow to practise: recover what a writer was doing in writing, not merely what the words appear to say. That means reconstructing the arguments they answered, the vocabulary available to them, and the conventions they worked within or against. I have spent a career on early modern political argument and on the idea of freedom. I enjoy taking a single passage and working outward from it.

Specialties
History of political thoughtintellectual historyrhetoric and argumentearly modern textsconceptions of liberty
Languages
English

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