Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism

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.