The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of writings spanning the past four decades Professor Skinner examines, with his customary perspicuity, the evol...
The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of writings spanning the past four decades Professor Skinner examines, with his customary perspicuity, the evolution and character of Hobbes's political thought. An indispensable work in its own right, this volume also serves as a demonstration of those methodological theories propounded in Volume I, and as an appositional commentary on the Renaissance values of civic virtue treated in Volume II. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition; these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought. Professer 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
作者简介
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Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College.
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1. Introduction: Hobbes's career in philosophy
2. Hobbes and the studia humanitatis
3. Hobbes's changing conception of a civil science
4. Hobbes on rhetoric and the construction of morality
5. Hobbes and the purely artificial person of the state
6. Hobbes on the proper signification of liberty
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1. Introduction: Hobbes's career in philosophy
2. Hobbes and the studia humanitatis
3. Hobbes's changing conception of a civil science
4. Hobbes on rhetoric and the construction of morality
5. Hobbes and the purely artificial person of the state
6. Hobbes on the proper signification of liberty
7. Hobbes and the classical theory of laughter
8. History and ideology in the English revolution
9. The context of Hobbes's theory of political obligation
10. Conquest and consent: Hobbes and the engagement controversy
11. Hobbes and his disciples in France and England
12. Hobbes and the politics of the early Royal Society
13. Hobbes's last word on politics.
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前半本书基本是炒reason and rheteric的冷饭，第七章基本是republican liberty，后半本书讨论英国内战后的意识形态背景，多少还算有点意思。搞笑的是，斯金纳自己最后得出结论说，霍布斯的贡献不在于他的立场，而在于他基于自然人性来论证这个立场，完全摒弃了神意论证的方式，然后，就没有然后了……把霍布斯归于de fecto派，未免太小看他了。
前半本书基本是炒reason and rheteric的冷饭，第七章基本是republican liberty，后半本书讨论英国内战后的意识形态背景，多少还算有点意思。搞笑的是，斯金纳自己最后得出结论说，霍布斯的贡献不在于他的立场，而在于他基于自然人性来论证这个立场，完全摒弃了神意论证的方式，然后，就没有然后了……把霍布斯归于de fecto派，未免太小看他了。
Chap. 1 & 4: Austin & Searle; No one is above the battle, because the battle is all there is; Anachronism, 不能否认我这句话没有在说这个意思; desire to resolve antimonies; mythology of prolepsis; (i) that B is known to have studied A’s works; (ii) t...
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1 有用 Schlossher 2018-12-18 00:29:11
读了可能需要用到几篇论文，斯金纳的功底自不必说，哲学深度和历史视野兼具，文本分析方面相当有启发性，不过也有很大的拓展空间。最后一篇论文将霍布斯归类为de facto派，就个人的阅读来看倒不能说错，在政治学方面确实有这样的体会，但是问题在于斯金纳忽视霍布斯的宗教批判是否合适，如果关注到这部分内容，可能会发现霍布斯并不是de facto派那么简单，他的野心其实更大，不过对霍布斯的思想定位还是挺高的。
1 有用 春日球 2010-10-10 14:43:16
就读了第三卷（霍布斯那卷）。发现很多国内“学者”都是照抄此书。
0 有用 张黄林 2023-07-29 15:42:20 上海
其实真正论述政治服从理论的只有短短几段话，最核心的只有一段，但就这么点东西国内某些研究者也能断章取义真是服了……
0 有用 召元甫 2022-04-25 14:18:14
虽然这本书读不懂
0 有用 朝闻道 2015-10-15 21:36:52
前半本书基本是炒reason and rheteric的冷饭，第七章基本是republican liberty，后半本书讨论英国内战后的意识形态背景，多少还算有点意思。搞笑的是，斯金纳自己最后得出结论说，霍布斯的贡献不在于他的立场，而在于他基于自然人性来论证这个立场，完全摒弃了神意论证的方式，然后，就没有然后了……把霍布斯归于de fecto派，未免太小看他了。
0 有用 张黄林 2023-07-29 15:42:20 上海
其实真正论述政治服从理论的只有短短几段话，最核心的只有一段，但就这么点东西国内某些研究者也能断章取义真是服了……
0 有用 召元甫 2022-04-25 14:18:14
虽然这本书读不懂
1 有用 Schlossher 2018-12-18 00:29:11
读了可能需要用到几篇论文，斯金纳的功底自不必说，哲学深度和历史视野兼具，文本分析方面相当有启发性，不过也有很大的拓展空间。最后一篇论文将霍布斯归类为de facto派，就个人的阅读来看倒不能说错，在政治学方面确实有这样的体会，但是问题在于斯金纳忽视霍布斯的宗教批判是否合适，如果关注到这部分内容，可能会发现霍布斯并不是de facto派那么简单，他的野心其实更大，不过对霍布斯的思想定位还是挺高的。
0 有用 朝闻道 2015-10-15 21:36:52
前半本书基本是炒reason and rheteric的冷饭，第七章基本是republican liberty，后半本书讨论英国内战后的意识形态背景，多少还算有点意思。搞笑的是，斯金纳自己最后得出结论说，霍布斯的贡献不在于他的立场，而在于他基于自然人性来论证这个立场，完全摒弃了神意论证的方式，然后，就没有然后了……把霍布斯归于de fecto派，未免太小看他了。
1 有用 春日球 2010-10-10 14:43:16
就读了第三卷（霍布斯那卷）。发现很多国内“学者”都是照抄此书。