Quentin Skinner
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Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006.
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The lack of freedom suffered by those who advise the powerful may of course be due to coercion or force.
(describing the view of Algernon Sidney) p. 93
The figure [neo-roman writers] wish to hold out for our admiration is described again and again.
pp. 95-96
Within a surprisingly short space of time, however, the fortunes of the neo-roman theory began to decline and fall.
pp. 96-97
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Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.
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