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Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940) is Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. Events 43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian" later "Caesar Augustus" Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Regius Professor of Modern History is one of the senior professorships in History at Cambridge University. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the From 2008 he will be Professor in the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. Queen Mary University of London (known as Queen Mary and Westfield College until 2000 and still officially named as such in its charter Queen Mary incorporates several

Biography

Quentin Skinner was born the second son of Alexander Skinner, CBE (died 1979), and Winifred Rose Margaret, née Duthie (died 1982). Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Educated at Bedford School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was elected into a Research Fellowship there in 1962 upon obtaining a double-starred first in History, and immediately gained a teaching Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he has been ever since. Bedford School is not to be confused with Bedford Modern School or Bedford High School. Gonville and Caius College Cambridge is a constituent College of Cambridge University, one of the world's most academically respected institutions The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading scheme for Undergraduate degrees ( Bachelor's degrees and some Master's degrees History is the study of the past particularly the written record Those who study history as a Profession are called Historians Etymology Christ’s College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. He is now also an Honorary Fellow of Caius.

In the middle 1970s he spent four formative years at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, initially as an historian and latterly in the School of Social Science. The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton New Jersey, United States is a center for theoretical research In 1978 he was appointed to the chair of Political Science at Cambridge University, and in 1996 he was appointed Regius Professor. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the He was pro-vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1999. In 1979 he married Susan James; they have a daughter and a son. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar)

Skinner is a distinguished visiting professor in the humanities at Queen Mary, University of London, for the 2007-2008 academic year and will be Professor in the Humanities at Queen Mary beginning the 2008-2009 academic year. Queen Mary University of London (known as Queen Mary and Westfield College until 2000 and still officially named as such in its charter Queen Mary incorporates several [1]

Academia

Skinner's historical writings have been characterised by an interest in recovering the ideas of Early Modern and previous political writers. This has been spread over Renaissance republican authors (see in Principal publications below, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought [1978]), the 'pre-Humanist' dictatores of later medieval Italy, through Machiavelli, and more recently (in Liberty before Liberalism [1998]) the English republicans of the mid-seventeenth century (including John Milton, James Harrington, and Algernon Sidney). John Milton ( 9 December, 1608 – 8 November, 1674) was an English Poet, Prose Polemicist and Algernon Sydney or Sidney (January 1623 &ndash December 7 1683) was an English Politician, political theorist and opponent of King The work of the 1970s and 1980s was in good part directed towards writing an account of the history of the modern idea of the state. A state is a political association with effective Sovereignty over a geographic Area and representing a Population. In more recent publications he has preferred the more capacious term 'neo-Roman' to 'republican'.

He is generally regarded as one of the two principal members of the influential 'Cambridge School' of the study of the history of political thought. Political philosophy is the study of questions about the City, Government, Politics, Liberty, Justice, Property, Rights The other principal member of this school is the historian J.G.A. Pocock, whose The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (1957) was a significant early influence. John Greville Agard (JGA Pocock (born March 7[[ 924]] is a world-renowned Historian and expatriate New Zealander noted for his trenchant studies of Republicanism Another important stimulus came from the work of Peter Laslett, and more particularly from Laslett's decisive edition of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1966). Peter Laslett ( 18 December 1915 – 8 November 2001) was an English historian John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 was an English Philosopher.

The 'Cambridge School' is best known for its attention to the 'languages' of political thought. [2] Skinner's particular contribution was to articulate a theory of interpretation which concentrated on recovering the author's intentions in writing classic works of political theory (Machiavelli, Thomas More, and Thomas Hobbes have been continuing preoccupations). Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535 from 1935 Saint Thomas More, was an English Lawyer, author and statesman who in his lifetime gained Thomas Hobbes (born 5 April 1588died 4 December 1679 was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation This theory was initially presented in terms of speech act theory. Speech act is a technical term in Linguistics and the Philosophy of language. One of the consequences of this account of interpretation is an emphasis on the necessity of studying less well-known political writers as a means of shedding light on the classic authors. A further consequence has been an attack on the uncritical assumption that political classics are monolithic and free-standing. In its earlier versions this added up to an attack on the approach of an older generation, particularly on that of Leo Strauss. Leo Strauss (September 20 1899 &ndash October 18 1973 was a German -born Jewish-American political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical

Skinner's longstanding concern with the speech acts of political writing helps explain his turn at the beginning of the 1990s towards the role of neo-classical rhetoric in early modern political theory, which resulted in his study of Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (1996). Rhetoric has had many definitions no simple definition can do it justice Neo-classical rhetoric can be regarded as a form of early modern speech act theory.

More recently, he has turned to the classic preoccupation of Cambridge Regius Professors (not least Lord Acton), the history of liberty. John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton 1st Baron Acton, KCVO ( 10 January 1834 &ndash 19 June 1902) Liberty, the freedom to act or believe without being stopped by unnecessary force The history of theories of political representation has been an offshoot of this interest.

In a significant development of his earlier and biting critiques of anachronism in the history of ideas, he now advances the view that one purpose of studying the history of political thought is to excavate past ideas in order to reassert their potential importance in modern political debate. An anachronism (from the Greek "ana" " ανά " "against anti-" and "chronos" " χρόνος " The history of ideas is a field of Research in History that deals with the expression preservation and change of human Ideas over time Nevertheless, at one point he wrote that we moderns must "do more thinking on our own. "

Principal publications

BOOKS:

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume I: The Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 1978)

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume II: The Age of Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 1978)

Machiavelli (Oxford University Press, 1981)

Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 1998)

Visions of Politics: Volume I: Regarding Method (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Visions of Politics: Volume II: Renaissance Virtues (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Visions of Politics: Volume III: Hobbes and Civil Science (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

L’artiste en philosophie politique (Editions de Seuil, Paris, 2003)

Hobbes and Republican Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2008)


BOOKED EDITED:

(Co-editor and contributor), Philosophy, Politics and Society: Fourth Series (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1972)

(Co-editor and contributor), Philosophy in History (Cambridge University Press, 1984)

(Editor and contributor), The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 1985)

(Co-editor and contributor), The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1988)

(Co-editor), Machiavelli, The Prince (trans. Russell Price) (Cambridge University Press, 1988)

(Co-editor and contributor), Machiavelli and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 1990)

(Co-editor and contributor), Political Discourse in Early-modern Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1993)

(Co-editor) Milton and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

(Co-editor and contributor), Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, Volume I: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

(Co-editor and contributor), Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, Volume II: The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

(Co-editor and contributor), States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

(Co-editor), Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, Volume XI) (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005)



SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

1988: Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics, ed. James Tully:Polity Press and Princeton University Press.

1996: ‘Dossier Quentin Skinner’, Krisis 64.

2001: Slagmark: Special Number (33) on Quentin Skinner.

2003a: Kari Palonen, Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric, Cambridge: Polity Press.

2003b: Kari Palonen, Die Entzauberung der Begriffe: Das Umschreiben der politischen Begriffe bei Quentin Skinner und Reinhart Koselleck, Münster.

2006: Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, ed. Annabel Brett and James Tully, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2007: El giro contextual: Cinco ensayos de Quentin Skinner y seis comentarios, ed. Enrique Bocardo Crespo: Madrid: Editorial Tecnos.


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