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Subject(s)

• Political science—History—16th century [Browse]
• Political science—History—17th century [Browse]

Series

Ideas in context. [More in this series]

Summary note

This contribution to our understanding of European political theory will challenge the perspectives in which political thought is understood. Framed as a general account of the period between 1572 and 1651 it charts the formation of a distinctively modern political vocabulary, based on arguments of political necessity and raison d'etat in the work of the major theorists. While Dr. Tuck pays detailed attention to Montaigne, Grotius, Hobbes and the theorists of the English Revolution, he also reconsiders the origins of their conceptual vocabulary in humanist thought--particularly skepticism and stoicism--and its development and appropriation during the revolutions in Holland and France. This book will be welcomed by all historians of political thought and those interested in the development of the idea of the state.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-370) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The Renaissance background
• Scepticism, Stoicism and raison d'etat
• The spread of the new humanism
• The alternatives
• Hugo Grotius
• The English Revolution
• Thomas Hobbes.

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ISBN

• 0521360005 (hardback)
• 0521438853 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^92016033^

OCLC

25831768

RCP

H - S

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