Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain

Ideas in Context

by Nicholas Phillipson (Editor), Quentin Skinner (Editor)

This collection of essays, all by preeminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain. Organized on a broadly chronological basis, the topics addressed by individual scholars reflect in general the themes initiated and inspired by the work of the distinguished intellectual historian, J. G. A. Pocock, for whom the collection is intended as a tribute. Each of the sixteen contributors have thought long and critically about Pocock's seminal contributions to the subject, and in each essay engages with the debates he has provoked. Professor Pocock has responded to the essays and provided his personal interpretation of the themes they invoke.

Genres: Politics, History

464 pages, Hardcover

First published February 26, 1993

About the author

A specialist in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment, Nicholas Tindal Phillipson was Emeritus Reader in History and Honorary Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Phillipson studied as an undergraduate at the universities of Aberdeen and Cambridge, and completed his PhD at Cambridge in 1967. He joined the History department at Edinburgh as a Lecturer in 1965, and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer and Reader, before retiring in 2004.