Rethinking Liberty Before Liberalism

Book Overview

Opens up new histories of freedom and republicanism by building on Quentin Skinner's ground-breaking Liberty before Liberalism nearly twenty five years after its initial publication. Leading historians and philosophers reveal the neo-Roman conception of liberty that Skinner unearthed as a normative and historical hermeneutic tool of enormous, ongoing power. The volume thinks with neo-Romanism to offer reinterpretations of individual thinkers, such as Montaigne, Grotius and Locke. It probes the role of neo-Roman liberty within hierarchies and structures beyond that of citizen and state - namely, gender, slavery, and democracy. Finally, it reassesses the relationships between neo-Romanism and other languages in the history of political thought: liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and the human rights tradition. The volume concludes with a major reappraisal by Skinner himself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108948391
• ISBN13: 9781108948395
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"