Rethinking The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Annabel Brett is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. James Tully is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the University of Victoria. Holly Hamilton-Bleakley is an independent scholar.

• Preface James Tully and Annabel Brett; Part I. Introduction: 1. The context of the Foundations Mark Goldie; 2. Linguistic philosophy and the Foundations Holly Hamilton-Bleakley; Part II. Rethinking the Foundations: 3. Foundations and moments J. G. A. Pocock; 4. Skinner, pre-Humanistic rhetorical culture and Machiavelli Marco Geuna; 5. Unoriginal authors: how to do things with texts in the Renaissance Warren Boutcher; 6. 'The best state of the Commonwealth': Thomas More and Quentin Skinner Cathy Curtis; 7. Scholasticism in Quentin Skinner's Foundations H. M. Höpfl; 8. Scholastic political thought and the modern concept of the state Annabel Brett; 9. 'So meerly humane': theories of resistance in early modern Europe Martin van Gelderen; 10. Hobbes and democracy Richard Tuck; 11. A lion in the house: Hobbes and democracy Kinch Hoekstra; 12. Hobbes and the foundations of modern international thought David Armitage; 13. Surveying the Foundations: a retrospect and reassessment Quentin Skinner; Bibliography.

'The compilation presents a group of distinguished contributors paying their homage to Skinner … [the book] justifies the widening of the scope of political theory.' Redescriptions: Yearbook on Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory