MANCEPT workshop on Methods in Political Theory
A call for papers for a workshop as part of the Tenth MANCEPT Annual Conference: 4th – 6th September 2013. During the 1960s and 70s the methodological orthodoxy of enquiries into the study of political...
View ArticleBooks received – Klein on Climate Change, Skinner on Shakespeare, Lefebvre on...
A re-edition of one of Henri Lefebvre’s books on Marx; Deleuze and Fascism, edited by Brad Evans and Julian Reid; Quentin Skinner’s Forensic Shakespeare; Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything; and the...
View ArticleThe most important academic books to me from 2014
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...
View ArticleAndrew Barry, “Geography and Other Disciplines”– discussion of genealogy and...
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...
View ArticlePolitical Thought, Time and History: An International Conference – Cambridge,...
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...
View ArticleWhat Intellectual History Teaches Us: A Conversation with Quentin Skinner (2019)
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...
View ArticleTalking to Thinkers with Quentin Skinner, 2 November 2020 (video)
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...
View ArticleBooks received – Hegel, Skinner, Pereltsvaig and Lewis, Kant (with a grumble...
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...
View ArticleMartin Jay, Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual...
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...
View ArticleRichard Bourke & Quentin Skinner (eds.), History in the Humanities and Social...
Richard Bourke & Quentin Skinner (eds.), History in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Cambridge University Press, December 2022 This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between...
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