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Opens up new histories of freedom and republicanism by building on Quentin Skinner's ground-breaking Liberty before Liberalism nearly twenty five years after its initial publication. Leading historians and philosophers reveal the neo-Roman conception of liberty that Skinner unearthed as a normative and historical hermeneutic tool of enormous, ongoing power. The volume thinks with neo-Romanism to offer reinterpretations of individual thinkers, such as Montaigne, Grotius and Locke. It probes the role of neo-Roman liberty within hierarchies and structures beyond that of citizen and state – namely, gender, slavery, and democracy. Finally, it reassesses the relationships between neo-Romanism and other languages in the history of political thought: liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and the human rights tradition. The volume concludes with a major reappraisal by Skinner himself.
Introduction Hannah Dawson and Annelien de Dijn
Part I. Authors:
1. Freedom without republicanism: the case of Montaigne Felicity Green
2. Hugo Grotius on freedom of will and self-government: Greek, patristic and roman legacies Martin van Gelderen
3. Liberty before licence in Locke Hannah Dawson
Part II. Hierarchies:
4. Liberty and hierarchy in Milton's revolutionary prose Rachel Foxley
5. Democratic republicanism in the early modern period Annelien de Dijn
6. Gender, liberty, participation and virtue: what the eighteenth century can teach us about republicanism Sandrine Bergès
7. Liberty, death, and slavery in the age of atlantic revolutions, 1770s-1790s René Koekkoek
Part III. Traditions:
8. Beyond the 'wretched subterfuge': liberalism, freedom, and responsibility Eric Nelson
9. 'A just and true liberty': the idea of (neo-roman) freedom in francophone counter-revolutionary thought c. 1780-1800 Matthijs Lok
10. Chains and invisible threads: liberty and domination in Marx's account of wage-slavery Bruno Leipold
11. Republican liberty in the philosophy of human rights Lena Halldenius
Conclusion: on neo-roman liberty: a response and reassessment Quentin Skinner.
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Opens up new histories of freedom and republicanism by building on Quentin Skinner's ground-breaking Liberty before Liberalism nearly twenty five years after its initial publication. Leading historians and philosophers reveal the neo-Roman conception of liberty that Skinner unearthed as a normative and historical hermeneutic tool of enormous, ongoing power. The volume thinks with neo-Romanism to offer reinterpretations of individual thinkers, such as Montaigne, Grotius and Locke. It probes the role of neo-Roman liberty within hierarchies and structures beyond that of citizen and state – namely, gender, slavery, and democracy. Finally, it reassesses the relationships between neo-Romanism and other languages in the history of political thought: liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and the human rights tradition. The volume concludes with a major reappraisal by Skinner himself.