TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palonen, Kari.
TI  - Quentin Skinner: history, politics, rhetoric
SN  - 9780745628578
U1  - 320.5PAL 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Skinner, Quentin
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-199) and indexes
N2  - Quentin Skinner's treatment of political theory as a dimension of political life marks a revolutionary move in the historical as well as the philosophical study of political thought. Skinner brings the study of political theory closer to the language of agents and treats theorists as politicians of a special kind. This is as true of his accounts of his contemporaries, such as Rawls, Rorty, Geertz and Habermas, as it is of his interpretations of classical thinkers such as Machiavelli and Hobbes. Skinner has become internationally renowned for this approach, which ties together historical and contemporary analysis in order to integrate the study of the past and the present, and which tries fully to uncover the historical context and development of key concepts in political theory such as freedom and the state
ER  -