Liberty as independence : the making and unmaking of a political ideal /
What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence from the classical ideal to earl...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Liberty and the Revolution of 1688. The ideal of liberty as independence
- The legitimacy of the revolution debated
- Part II. Liberty as independence : the ideal entrenched. Towards the Whig idea of a free state
- The Whig vision of a free society
- Part III. Liberty as independence : the ideal betrayed. The persistence of dependence
- The continuing use of arbitrary power
- Part IV. A new view of liberty. The new view and its provenance
- The new view affirmed
- Part V. The rival views in contestation. Liberty as independence : reaffirmed
- The new view entrenched.