Rethinking Liberty before LiberalismHannah Dawson, Annelien de Dijn Opens up new histories of freedom and republicanism by building on Quentin Skinner's ground-breaking Liberty before Liberalism nearly twenty five years after its initial publication. Leading historians and philosophers reveal the neo-Roman conception of liberty that Skinner unearthed as a normative and historical hermeneutic tool of enormous, ongoing power. The volume thinks with neo-Romanism to offer reinterpretations of individual thinkers, such as Montaigne, Grotius and Locke. It probes the role of neo-Roman liberty within hierarchies and structures beyond that of citizen and state - namely, gender, slavery, and democracy. Finally, it reassesses the relationships between neo-Romanism and other languages in the history of political thought: liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and the human rights tradition. The volume concludes with a major reappraisal by Skinner himself. |
Contents
The Case of Montaigne | 17 |
Liberty before Licence in Locke | 60 |
Liberty and Hierarchy in Miltons Revolutionary Prose | 79 |
Democratic Republicanism in the Early Modern Period | 100 |
What | 117 |
Liberty Death and Slavery in the Age of Atlantic | 134 |
Liberalism Freedom | 157 |
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