Category Archives: Quentin Skinnner

David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl (eds.), Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise – De Gruyter, April 2024

Posted on April 28, 2024 by stuartelden

David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl (eds.), Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise – De Gruyter, April 2024 Aby Warburg is regarded as one of the great pioneers of modern cultural studies. This book brings together texts by many of the most … Continue reading →

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Thinking Global Podcast – Quentin Skinner at E-International Relations

Posted on April 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Thinking Global Podcast – Quentin Skinner at E-International Relations This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Professor Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London – @QMHistory) speaks with the team about contextualism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and more. Professor Skinner chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) … Continue reading →

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Richard Bourke & Quentin Skinner (eds.), History in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Cambridge University Press, December 2022

Posted on December 7, 2022 by stuartelden

Richard Bourke & Quentin Skinner (eds.), History in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Cambridge University Press, December 2022 This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political … Continue reading →

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Martin Jay, Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History – Penn Press, November 2021

Posted on May 17, 2021 by stuartelden

Martin Jay, Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History – Penn Press, November 2021 There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Hegel, Skinner, Pereltsvaig and Lewis, Kant (with a grumble about books in a series)

Posted on May 7, 2021 by stuartelden

Some books received in recompense for review work for Cambridge University Press: The first four volumes of the Cambridge Hegel Translations, Quentin Skinner’s From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics, The Indo-European Controversy, and Kant’s Lectures and Drafts … Continue reading →

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Talking to Thinkers with Quentin Skinner, 2 November 2020 (video)

Posted on November 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Talking to Thinkers with Quentin Skinner with Johnny Lyons, 2 November 2020 (video) In the episode of Talking to Thinkers Johnny Lyons talks to the eminent historian Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London … Continue reading →

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What Intellectual History Teaches Us: A Conversation with Quentin Skinner (2019)

Posted on June 18, 2020 by stuartelden

What Intellectual History Teaches Us: A Conversation with Quentin Skinner – Jeremy Jennings at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society, Kings College London A couple of years old, but still interesting in relation to his career, recent … Continue reading →

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Political Thought, Time and History: An International Conference – Cambridge, 10-11 May 2018

Posted on December 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Full details and programme heherere. It is easy to assume that political thought is bound up with time and history.  To most historians, time and history are obvious dimensions of politics; politics occur in contexts which are temporal and historical, … Continue reading →

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Andrew Barry, “Geography and Other Disciplines” – discussion of genealogy and the canon

Posted on May 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Andrew Barry has a very interesting new essay published, “Geography and Other Disciplines” – a discussion of geography and the canon. There is also an introduction to the theme issue of which this is part by Richard Powell [update: corrected from … Continue reading →

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The most important academic books to me from 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014 by stuartelden

A non-systematic, alphabetically ordered list of the academic books published this year I read and most liked – the photo is of some that were to hand. Louis Althusser, On the Reproduction of Capitalism (Verso) Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (Ashgate) Étienne Balibar, Equaliberty: … Continue reading →

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