A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account of all the principal texts of the period, discussing in turn the chief political writings of Dante, Marsiglio, Bartolus, Machiavelli, Erasmus and more, Luther and Calvin, Bodin and the Calvinist revolutionaries. But he also examines a very large number of lesser writers in order to explain the general social and intellectual context in which these leading theorists worked. He thus presents the history not as a procession of 'classic texts' but are more readily intelligible. He traces by this means the gradual emergence of the vocabulary of modern political thought, and in particular the crucial concept of the State. We are given an insight into the actual processes of the formation of ideologies and into some of the linkages between political theory and practice. Professor Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474

在国际学术界，作为思想史研究“剑桥学派”的代表性人物，昆廷·斯金纳被公认为一位著名的思想史家，也是一位思想家。凯瑞·帕罗内所写的本书则对昆廷·斯金纳的研究理论与方法进行了系统的梳理与阐释。在时间上，本书从斯金纳学术起步的1960年代开始至今；在内容上，则以历史、政治思想、自由、语言行动、修辞和概念史为主题来展示。并在广泛的欧洲思想与学术演进的背景下，将斯金纳与包括马克斯·韦伯在内的众多思想家进行比较，从而更加凸显昆廷·斯金纳思想史研究的学术价值和贡献。 本书是西方学术界第一本研究斯金纳的重要学术著作，并被列为“当代思想家”丛书。出版后受到了原剑桥大学思想史教授约翰·波考克等著名学者的一致好评。为了有助于国内学术界系统了解斯金纳思想史研究的理论与方法，经作者授权，将此书译成中文首次在国内出版，其将适合政治学、历史学、哲学和社会科学等研究领域的学者和学生阅读。

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