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From Humanism to Hobbes
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Quentin Skinner
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book f
From Humanism to Hobbes
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: Quentin Skinner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Offers new insights into the works of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and especially Hobbes by focusing on their use of rhetoric.
Mortal Gods
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Ted H. Miller
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-13 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry in
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Quentin Skinner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-02-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.
Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Gary Remer
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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Religious toleration is much discussed these days. But where did the Western notion of toleration come from? In this thought-provoking book Gary Remer traces ar