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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - International Balzan Prize
  • 1999 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Quentin Skinner is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, with significant contributions to subfields such as Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science, and Law.

Their research topics include:

  • Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Political Theology and Sovereignty
  • War, Ethics, and Justification
  • Legal principles and applications
  • Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies

Recent papers authored by Skinner cover diverse themes in political philosophy and history:

  • "A Bridge between Art and Philosophy: The Case of Thomas Hobbes" (2022), published in European Review
  • "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters" (2025), published in Journal of the History of Ideas
  • "L'histoire, la philosophie politique et l'École de Cambridge" (2024), published in Raisons politiques
  • "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" (2025), published in Global Intellectual History

In addition, Skinner contributed to a work published by Cambridge University Press eBooks in 2022 titled "Index."

Their frequent co-authors include Howard Burton, Richard Bourke, Hannah Dawson, Michael Lobban, and Samuel Moyn.

Skinner's publications have appeared across several academic venues, including:

  • European Review
  • Journal of the History of Ideas
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Raisons politiques
  • Global Intellectual History

Among their book publications, Skinner has authored titles published primarily by Cambridge University Press and Open Agenda Publishing eBooks. Notable books include:

  • "History in the Humanities and Social Sciences" (2022), published by Cambridge University Press
  • "Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism" (2022), published by Cambridge University Press
  • "Quest for Freedom" (2020), published by Open Agenda Publishing eBooks

Their work has been recognized through various awards such as the International Balzan Prize in 2006, membership in the Royal Irish Academy since 1999, and membership in Academia Europaea since 1989.

Best Publications

  • Liberty Before Liberalism

    Quentin Skinner

  • The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

    Quentin Skinner

  • Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas

    Quentin Skinner

  • Reason and rhetoric in the philosophy of Hobbes

    Quentin Skinner

  • The Cambridge history of Renaissance philosophy

    E. J. Ashworth;Charles B. Schmitt;Quentin Skinner;Eckhard Kessler

  • Visions of Politics

    Quentin Skinner

  • Philosophy in history : essays on the historiography of philosophy

    Richard Rorty;Jerome B. Schneewind;Quentin Skinner

  • Machiavelli and Republicanism

    Gisela Bock;Quentin Skinner;Maurizio Viroli

  • The foundations of modern political thought: CALVINISM AND THE THEORY OF REVOLUTION

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  • The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences

    Quentin Skinner

  • Milton and republicanism

    David Armitage;Armand Himy;Quentin Skinner

  • III. Some Problems in the Analysis of Political Thought and Action

    Quentin Skinner

  • The republican ideal of political liberty

    Quentin Skinner

  • Hobbes and Republican Liberty

    Quentin Skinner

  • A Third Concept of Liberty

    Quentin Skinner

  • A Genealogy of the Modern State

    Quentin Skinner

  • Hobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the State

    Quentin Skinner

  • Philosophy in History

    Jonathan Ree;Richard Rorty;J. B. Schneewind;Quentin Skinner

  • III. The Ideological Context of Hobbes's Political Thought

    Quentin Skinner

  • Republicanism : a shared European heritage

    Martin van Gelderen;Quentin Skinner

  • Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain

    Nicholas Phillipson;Quentin Skinner

  • Foundations of Modern Political Thought@@@The Foundations of Modern Political Thought.

    Donald R. Kelley;Quentin Skinner

  • Visions of Politics: Conquest and consent: Hobbes and the engagement controversy

    Quentin Skinner

  • Visions of Politics: Republican virtues in an age of princes

    Quentin Skinner

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University
Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton Princeton University
Peter Laslett
Peter Laslett University of Cambridge
Onora O'Neill
Onora O'Neill University of Cambridge
J. G. A. Pocock
J. G. A. Pocock Johns Hopkins University

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