Quentin Skinner - Queen Mary University of London



QUENTIN SKINNER

Curriculum vitae and list of principal publications

October 2016

PERSONAL DETAILS

Full name: Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner

Birthplace: Oldham, Lancashire, England

Date of birth: 26th November, 1940

Nationality: British

Marital status: Married to Professor Susan James

Children: One daughter (b. 1979); one son (b. 1982)

Address: School of History,

Queen Mary, University of London,

Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS.

E-mail: q.skinner@qmul.ac.uk

CAREER

Higher education

1965: M.A., University of Cambridge

1962: B.A., University of Cambridge

1959: Entrance Scholar, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge

Academic appointments

Since 2008: Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities,

Queen Mary, University of London

1996-2008: Regius Professor of History, University of Cambridge

1999: Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge

1979-96: Professor of Political Science, University of Cambridge

1974-79: The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton:

Longer-term Member, School of Social Science, 1976-79

Member, School of Historical Studies, 1974-75

1967-74: Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge

1965-67: Assistant Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge

1962-2008: Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge

Visiting Appointments

2014: Spinoza Visiting Professor, University of Amsterdam

2013-14: Laurence Rockefeller Visiting Professor, Princeton University

2011: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Northwestern University

2008: Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

2006: Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, A.N.U.

2003-4: Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

2003: Ford’s Lecturer, University of Oxford

1997: Professeur invité, Collège de France

1995: Avalon Visiting Professor, Northwestern University

1994: Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, A.N.U.

1992: Cardinal Mercier Visiting Professor, University of Leuven

1991: Professeur Associé, Université Paris X

1989: Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, A.N.U.

1987: Directeur d’Etudes Associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris

1987: Visiting Lecturer, Newberry Library, Chicago

1982: Lewin Visiting Professor, Washington University, St. Louis

1980: Carlyle Lecturer, University of Oxford

1970: Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Science, A.N.U.

ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS

Awards and prizes

2008: The Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis

2007: The David Easton Award, American Political Science Association

2006: The Balzan Prize

2006: The Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize, British Political Studies Association

2001-04: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

2001: The Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, American Political Science Association

2001: The Pilkington Teaching Prize, University of Cambridge

1997: The Medal of the Collège de France

1979: The Wolfson History Prize

Honorary Degrees and Honorary Fellowships

2014: Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris causa, University of Copenhagen

2011: Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris causa, University of Oslo

2009: Miembro Académico Honorario, Universidad Adolfo Ibáňez, Santiago

2008: Honorary Fellow, Christ’s College Cambridge

2007: Doctor of Letters, Honoris causa, The University of Aberdeen

2007: Doctor of Letters, Honoris causa, The University of Athens

2005: Doctor of Letters, Honoris causa, The University of St Andrews

2005: Doctor of Laws, Honoris causa, Harvard University

2004: Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris causa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

2000: Doctor of Letters, Honoris causa, The University of Oxford

2000: Honorary Fellow, Queen Mary University of London

1997: Honorary Fellow, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge

1997: Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris causa, The University of Helsinki

1992: Doctor of Letters, Honoris causa, The University of East Anglia

1992: Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris causa, The University of Chicago

Membership of learned societies

2015: Foreign Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

2009: Corresponding Fellow, Österreichische Academie der Wissenschaften

2007: Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

1999: Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy

1997: Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society

1996: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

1989: Fellow of the Academia Europea

1986: Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1981: Fellow of the British Academy

1971: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Named lecture-series

2015: The Agnes Cuming Lectures, University College Dublin

2014: The Spinoza Lectures, University of Amsterdam

2013: The Academia Sinica Lectures, Taiwan

2012: The Clark Lectures, Trinity College Cambridge

2011: The Clarendon Lectures, University of Oxford

2005: The Adorno Lectures, University of Frankfurt.

2005: The Robert P. Benedict Lectures, Boston University

2003: The Page-Barbour Lectures, University of Virginia

2003: The Ford Lectures, University of Oxford

1995: The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, University of Kent

1984: The Tanner Lectures, Harvard University

1983: The Messenger Lectures, Cornell University

1980: The Carlyle Lectures, University of Oxford

1980: The Gauss Seminars, Princeton University

Named lectures:

2016: The Mudd Center for Ethics Lecture, Washington and Lee University

2015: The Carl Schmitt Lecture, The Humboldt University, Berlin

2015: The Balzan Lecture, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome

2015: The Max Weber Lecture, European University Institute, Florence.

2015: The Director’s Lecture, Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago

2014: The John Burrow Memorial Lecture, University of Sussex

2013: The AMIAS Lecture, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

2013: The George S. Parthemos Lecture, University of Georgia

2012: The T. M. Knox Memorial Lecture, University of St Andrews

2012 The 1814 Lecture, University of Bergen

2012 The Creighton Lecture, University of London

2011: The Kantorowicz Lecture, University of Frankfurt

2010: The Sheffield Lecture, University of Sheffield

2010: The Roy Porter Memorial Lecture, University College London

2009: The Sykes Lecture, Pembroke College Cambridge

2008: The BBC History Lecture, University of London

2008: The Lady Margaret Lecture, Christ’s College Cambridge

2008: The Ramsay Murray Lecture, Selwyn College Cambridge.

2008: The Annual British Academy Lecture

2008: The Una’s Lecture, University of California at Berkeley

2008: The Lansdowne Lecture, University of Victoria, Canada

2008: The Anson G. Phelps Lecture, New York University

2008: The James A. Moffett Lecture, Princeton University

2007: The Research Institute in Humanities Lecture, University of Bristol

2007: The Dr. Lee Seng Tee Lecture, Wolfson College Cambridge

2007: The Årets Sløk Lecture, University of Aarhus

2007: The Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture, Queen Mary University of London

2006: The Kossmann Lecture, University of Gröningen

2006: The Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture, University of Sydney

2005: The Morrell Address, University of York

2004: The Annual European Journal of Philosophy Lecture

2003: The Lady Margaret Lecture, Christ’s College Cambridge

2003: The John Coffin Memorial Lecture, University of London

2001: The Isaiah Berlin Memorial Lecture, The British Academy

2001: The Rowland Egger Memorial Lecture, University of Virginia

2001: The Marc Bloch Lecture, École des Hautes Études, Paris

2000: The Neale Lecture, University of London

2000: The Henry Tudor Memorial Lecture, University of Durham

2000: The Patrides Lecture, University of York

2000: The John Passmore Lecture, Australian National University

1999: The Lionel Trilling Seminars, Columbia University

1998: The Judith Shklar Memorial Lecture, Harvard University

1998: The Martin Hollis Memorial Lecture, University of East Anglia

1998: The Bickley Memorial Lecture, St Hugh’s College Oxford

1996: The A. B. Emden Lecture, St Edmund Hall Oxford

1995: The Charlton Lecture, Warwick University

1994: The F. W. Bateson Memorial Lecture, Corpus Christi College Oxford

1993: The Iredell Lecture, University of Lancaster

1991: The Matthew Vassar Lecture, Vassar College

1991: The Hannah Arendt Lecture, University of Southampton

1990: The Dawes Hicks Lecture on Philosophy, British Academy

1989: The Prothero Lecture, Royal Historical Society

1988: The Warrender Lecture, University of Sheffield

1988: The H. L. A. Hart Memorial Lecture, University of Oxford

1986: The Raleigh Lecture on History, British Academy

1985: The James Ford Special Lecture, University of Oxford

TEACHING

Supervision of graduate students

31 PhD students successfully supervised.

Guest Lectures:

Lectures at Universities in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

ADMINISTRATION

Since 2012: Co-Chair, Centre for the Study of Political Thought, Queen Mary University of London.

2010: Member of Jury, Francqui Prize in the Humanities

Since 2008: Member of Prize Committee, Balzan Foundation

2006-10: Member of Advisory Board, Centre of Excellence, University of Jyväskylä

2004-09: Trustee of the Isaac Newton Trust, Trinity College Cambridge

2003-08: Member of Research Council, European University Institute, Florence

1999: Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge

1996-2008: President, Cambridge Historical Society

1993-1995: Chairman, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

1992-2008: Membre du Jury, Prix Guizot

1987-92: Member of Management Committee, The Warburg Institute

1987-90: Member of Council, British Academy

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Refereeing

1. Between 1984 and 2012: member of Editorial Board of Cambridge University Press series Ideas in Context, refereeing all submissions to the series.

2. Since 1986: Co-editor, subsequently General Editor, of Cambridge University Press series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, refereeing all submissions to the series.

3. Between 1996 and 2008: President of the Cambridge Historical Society, regularly reviewing submissions to The Historical Journal.

4. Frequent reviewer of manuscripts submitted to journals of intellectual history and political theory.

Membership of Editorial and Advisory Boards

General Editor of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

(Published by Cambridge University Press)

Member of Editorial Board of The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes (Published by Oxford University Press)

Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Politics-Debates-Concepts

ed. Claudia Weisner and Kari Palonen

(Published by Nomos, Baden-Baden)

Advisory Expert to the Amsterdam Centre for Political Thought, University of Amsterdam

Editorial and advisory boards of journals:

Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Contemporary Political Theory

Common Knowledge

Contributions to the History of Concepts

Cuadernos sobre Vico

Culture and Politics

Dimensions

The European Review

Filosofia Politica

Global Constitutionalism

Historia philosophica

The Historical Journal

The International Journal of Politics and Culture

The Journal of the History of Ideas

The Journal of the Philosophy of History

The Journal of Political Ideologies

The Journal of Political Philosophy

Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais

Redescriptions

Political Theory

Raison publique

Revista de História das Ideias

Rivista di filosofia

Tracés: Revue de sciences humaines

Storia e Politica

Storia del pensiero politico

Studia Erasmiana Wratislaviensia

Teoria Polityki

Zeitschrift fűr Ideengeschichte

PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS

Books

1. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume I: The Renaissance

xxiv + 305pp., Cambridge University Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-521-29337-2

Translated into Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Greek, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish.

2. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume II: The Age of Reformation

vi + 405pp., Cambridge University Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-521-29435-5

Translated into Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish.

Turkish translation forthcoming.

[This work won the Wolfson Prize for History (1979) and the Benjamin E. Lippincott Award of the American Political Science Association (2001). It was included in the list published in the Times Literary Supplement in 1996 of the hundred most influential books published since World War II.]

3(a) Machiavelli

vii + 102pp., Oxford University Press, 1981.

3 (b) Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction [A revised version of 3 (a)]

x + 110pp., Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-19-285407-0

Translated into Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Malay, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish. Turkish translation forthcoming.

4. Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes

xvi + 477pp., Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-521-59645-9

Translated into Chinese, Italian, Portuguese.

5. Liberty before Liberalism

xiv + 142pp., Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-1-107-68953-4

Translated into Chinese, Farsi, French, Greek, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

6. Visions of Politics: Volume I: Regarding Method

xvi + 209pp., Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-58926-0

Translated into Chinese, Farsi, French, Italian, Korean, Polish. Portuguese and Spanish translations forthcoming

7. Visions of Politics: Volume II: Renaissance Virtues

xix + 461pp. (with 12 colour plates), Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-58926-0

Translated into Italian. Chinese and French translations forthcoming

8. Visions of Politics: Volume III: Hobbes and Civil Science

xvii + 386pp., Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-89060-1

Chinese and French translations forthcoming.

9. L’artiste en philosophie politique

187pp. (with 8 colour plates), Editions de Seuil, Paris, 2003. ISBN 978-2-912107-15-2

10. Hobbes and Republican Liberty

xxiii+245pp. (with 19 illustrations), Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-2-912107-15-2

Translated into Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish.

Japanese and Romanian translations forthcoming.

11. La verité et l’historien, ed. Christopher Hamel

67pp., Editions EHESS, Paris, 2011. ISBN 978-2-7132-2368-6

12. Die drei Körper des Staates

112pp., Wallstein, Göttingen, 2012. ISBN 978-3-8353-1157-2

13. Forensic Shakespeare

xii+356pp., Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-955824-7

[This work was named as a ‘Book of the Year’ in 2014 by Times Higher Education and by Times Literary Supplement]

14. From Humanism to Hobbes

c.400pp, Cambridge University Press.

Forthcoming 2017.

Books edited

1. (Co-editor and contributor), Philosophy, Politics and Society: Fourth Series

Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1972. ISBN 978-0-631-14410-6

2. (Co-editor and contributor), Philosophy in History

Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN 978-0-521-27330-5

Translated into Spanish.

3. (Editor and contributor), The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences

Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-521-39833-6

Translated into Greek, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish.

4. (Co-editor and contributor), The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy

Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-521-25104-4

5. (Co-editor), Machiavelli, The Prince (trans. Russell Price)

Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-521-34993-2

6. (Co-editor and contributor), Machiavelli and Republicanism

Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-521-43589-5

Translated into Chinese.

7. (Co-editor and contributor), Political Discourse in Early-modern Britain

Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-521-39242-6

Translated into Chinese.

8. (Co-editor) Milton and Republicanism

Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-521-64648-2

9. (Co-editor and contributor), Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage

Volume I: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe

Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-67235-1

10. (Co-editor and contributor), Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage

Volume II: The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe

Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-67234-4

11. (Co-editor and contributor), States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects

Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-521-53926-5

Translated into Chinese.

12. (Co-editor), Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right

Edited by Alan Cromartie and Quentin Skinner

(The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, Volume XI)

The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-923623-7

13. (Co-editor and contributor) Sovereignty in Fragments:

The Past, Present and Future of a Contested Concept

Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-107-00004-9

14. (Editor) Families and States in Western Europe

Cambridge University Press 2011. ISBN 978-0-521-12801-8

15. (Co-editor) Freedom and the Construction of Europe

Volume I: Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty

Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-03306-1

16. (Co-editor) Freedom and the Construction of Europe

Volume II: Free Persons and Free States

Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-03307-8

17. (Co-editor) Popular sovereignty in historical perspective

Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-107-13040-1

Uncollected articles in journals and chapters in books

1965: ‘Hobbes on Sovereignty: an Unknown Discussion’, Political Studies 13, pp. 213-18.

1966: ‘The Limits of Historical Explanations’, Philosophy 41, pp. 199-215.

1970: ‘Conventions and the Understanding of Speech Acts’, The Philosophical Quarterly 20, pp. 118-38.

1971: ‘On Performing and Explaining Linguistic Actions’, The Philosophical Quarterly 21, pp. 1-21.

1973: ‘The Empirical Theorists of Democracy and their Critics’, Political Theory 1, pp. 287-306.

1974: ‘Some Problems in the Analysis of Political Thought and Action’, Political Theory 2, pp. 277-303.

1975: ‘Hermeneutics and the Role of History’, New Literary History 7, pp. 209-32.

1978: ‘Action and Context’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 52, pp. 57-69.

1980: ‘The Origins of the Calvinist Theory of Revolution’ in After the Reformation, ed. Barbara Malament (London, 1980), pp. 309-30.

1985: ‘Introduction: The Return of Grand Theory’ in The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences, ed. Quentin Skinner (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 1-20.

1986: ‘The Paradoxes of Political Liberty’ in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Volume VII, ed. S. McMurrin (Cambridge, 1986), pp. 225-250.

Reprinted in Liberty, ed. David Miller, Oxford Readings in Politics and Government (Oxford, 1991) and in Equal Freedom: Selected Tanner Lectures on Human Values, ed. Stephen Darwall (Ann Arbor, 1995). Also available in Chinese and Romanian.

1988: ‘Warrender and Skinner on Hobbes: A Reply’, Political Studies 36, pp. 692-5.

1989: ‘Il concetto inglese di libertà’, Filosofia politica 3, pp. 77-102.

1992a: ‘On Justice, the Common Good and the Priority of Liberty’ in Dimensions of Radical Democracy, ed. Chantal Mouffe (London, 1992), pp. 211-24.

Also available in French

1992b: ‘Les idées républicains de liberté et de citoyenneté’, Rue Descartes 3, pp. 125-44.

1992c: ‘Liberty and Legal Obligation in Hobbes’s Leviathan’ in Cambridge Essays in Jurisprudence, ed. Ross Harrison (Oxford, 1992), pp. 231-56.

1992d: ‘The Italian City-Republics’ in Democracy: The Unfinished Journey, ed. John Dunn (Oxford, 1992), pp. 57-69.

1993: ‘Two Concepts of Citizenship’, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, pp. 403-19.

Also available in French.

1994: ‘Modernity and disenchantment: Some historical reflections’ in Philosophy in an age of pluralism, ed. James Tully (Cambridge 1994), pp. 37-48. Also available in German. Reprinted in The Politics of Postmodernity, ed. James Good and Irving Velody (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 49-60.

1995: ‘The Vocabulary of Renaissance Republicanism: a Cultural longue-durée?’ in Language and Images of Renaissance Italy, ed. Alison Brown (Oxford 1995), pp. 87-110.

1996a: ‘From Hume’s Intentions to Deconstruction and Back’, Journal of Political Philosophy 4, pp. 142-54.

1996b: ‘Rede en retorica in de filosofie van Hobbes’, contribution to ‘Dossier Quentin Skinner’ Krisis 64, pp. 9-16.

1998: ‘Machiavelli’s Political Morality’ European Review 6, pp. 321-5.

2001a: ‘Political Theory after the Enlightenment Project’ in Schools of Thought, ed. Joan W. Scott and Debra Keates (Princeton 2001), pp. 15-24.

2001b: ‘Why laughing mattered in the Renaissance’, History of Political Thought 22, pp. 418-47. Also available in French, Greek, Portuguese.

2002a: ‘A Third Concept of Liberty’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 117, pp. 237-68. Also available in Chinese, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Romanian, Spanish. An abbreviated version published as 2006d.

2002b: ‘Classical Liberty and the Coming of the English Civil War’ in Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, Volume II: The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe, ed. Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge 2002), pp. 9-28.

2002c: ‘Visions of Civil Liberty’ in The Future of the Past, ed. Peter Martland (London, 2002), pp. 104-12.

2003: ‘States and the Freedom of Citizens’ in States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects, ed. Quentin Skinner and Bo Sträth (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 11-27. Also available in Chinese, Greek.

2004a: ‘Hobbes and the Classical Theory of Laughter’ in Leviathan After 350 Years, ed. Tom Sorell and Luc Foisneau (Oxford 2004), pp. 139-66.

2004b: ‘Considerazioni sulla libertà repubblicana’ in Libertà politica e virtù civile, ed. Maurizio Viroli (Torino, 2004), pp. 249-60.

2005a: ‘The Generation of John Milton’ in Christ’s: A Cambridge College Over Five Centuries, ed. David Reynolds (London, 2005), pp. 41-72.

2005b: ‘On Intellectual History and the History of Books,’ Contributions to the History of Concepts, 1, pp. 29-36.

2005c: ‘Hobbes on Representation’, European Journal of Philosophy 13, pp. 155-84.

2006a: ‘Rethinking Political Liberty in the English Revolution’, History Workshop Journal 61, pp. 1-15.

2006b: ‘Afterword’ in British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800, ed. David Armitage (Cambridge 2006), pp. 278-85.

2006c: ‘Surveying the Foundations: a retrospect and reassessment’ in Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, ed. Annabel Brett and James Tully (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 236-61.

2006d: ‘A Third Concept of Liberty’ in The Liberty Reader, ed. David Miller (Boulder, 2006), pp. 243-54.

2006e-2007a: ‘La teoría evolutiva de la libertad de Thomas Hobbes’, Revista de Estudios Politicos 134 pp. 35-69 and 135, pp. 11-36.

2007b: ‘Hobbes on Persons, Authors and Representatives’ in The Cambridge Companion to Leviathan ed. Patricia Springborg (Cambridge 2007), pp. 157-80.

2007c: ‘The Monarchical Republic Enthroned’ in The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England, ed. John F. McDiarmid (Farnham, 2007), pp. 233-44.

2007d: ‘Wie ich Ideenhistoriker wurde’, Zeitschrift fűr Ideengeschichte, 2, pp. 79-88.

2007e: ‘Paradiastole: Redescribing the Vices as Virtues’ in Renaissance Figures of Speech, ed. Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge 2007), pp. 147-63.

2008a: ‘Freedom as the Absence of Arbitrary Power’ in Republicanism and Political Theory, ed. Cecile Laborde and John Maynor (Oxford, 2008), pp. 83-101. Revised and extended version in Ideas in History 3 (2008) pp. 11-37. Also available in French, German, Norwegian.

2008b: ‘Is it still possible to interpret texts?’ The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 89, pp. 647-54.

2008c: ‘Political Rhetoric and the Role of Ridicule’ in The Politics of Democratization in Europe: Concepts and Histories, ed. Kari Palonen (Farnham, 2008), pp. 137-49.

2008d: ‘History: Transformation and Immutability’ in The University of Cambridge: an 800th Anniversary Portrait, ed. Peter Pagnamenta (London, 2008), pp. 122-6.

2009a: ‘Afterword: Shakespeare and humanist culture’ in Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought, ed. David Armitage, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 271-81.

2009b: ‘Értelem és retorika Hobbes filozófiájában’, Helikon 1-2, pp. 50-69.

2009c ‘The Material Presentations of Hobbes’s Theory of the Commonwealth’ in The Materiality of Res Publica, ed. Dominique Colas and Oleg Kharkhordin (Newcastle, 2009), pp. 115-57.

2009d: ‘La Res Publica et sa matérialité chez Thomas Hobbes’, Raison Publique 11, pp. 73-92.

2009e: ‘On trusting the judgement of our rulers’ in Political Judgement, ed. Richard Bourke and Raymond Geuss, Cambridge, pp. 113-30.

2009f: ‘Reply’ in ‘Book Symposium: Hobbes and Political Theory’ in Hobbes Studies, 22 pp. 199-207.

2009g: ‘A Genealogy of the Modern State’, in Proceedings of the British Academy 162, pp. 325-70. Also available in Norwegian, Spanish.

2009h: ‘On the slogans of republican political theory’, European Journal of Political Theory 9, pp. 1-8.

2009i: ‘Repenser la liberté politique’, Raisons politiques 36, pp. 109-30.

2010a: ‘Truth and Explanation in History’ in Truth in Science, the Humanities, and Religion, ed. Nicolette Mout and Werner Stauffacher (Dordrecht, 2010), pp. 89-95.

2010b: [with Hent Kalmo] ‘Introduction: a concept in fragments’ in Sovereignty in Fragments, ed. Hent Kalmo and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 1-25.

2010c: ‘The sovereign state: a genealogy’ in Sovereignty in Fragments, ed. Hent Kalmo and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 26-46.

2011: ‘El historiador y la verdad’ in Historia del análisis politico, ed. Pablo Sánchez Garrido (Madrid, 2011), pp. 53-64.

2012a: ‘On the Liberty of the Ancients and the Moderns: A Reply to my Critics’ in ‘Symposium: On Quentin Skinner, from Method to Politics’, Journal of the History of Ideas 73 (2012), pp. 69-146, at pp. 127-46.

2012b: [with Christopher Ricks] ‘Up for Interpretation or What Is This Thing that Hearsay Is Not?’ Literary Imagination 14 (2012), pp. 125-42.

2012c: ‘Philosophical analysis and the interpretation of texts’ Rivista di filosofia 103, pp. 465-77.

2012d: ‘Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince’ in Philosophy Bites Back, ed. David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton (Oxford, 2012), pp. 37-50.

2012e: [with Carole Pateman] ‘Hobbes, History, Politics and Gender’, in Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes, ed. Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright (Philadelphia, 2012), pp. 18-43.

2013a: ‘What does freedom mean to us?’ [Text in Russian; discussion in English] Ab imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism 1, pp. 21-63.

2013b: ‘Liberty and Security: The Early-Modern English Debate’ in Sicherheit in der Frühen Neuzeit: Norm, Praxis, Repräsentation, ed. Christoph Kampmann and Ulrich Niggemann (Köln, 2013), p. 30-42.

2013c: ‘A spurious dating for All’s Well That Ends Well’, Notes and Queries, New Series, 60, pp. 429-34.

2013d: ‘Hobbes, laughter and civil conversation’ in L’antidoto di Mercurio: La civil conversazione tra Rinascimento ed età moderna, ed. Nicola Panichi (Florence, 2013), pp. 73-94.

2014: ‘Freedom of inclination: On the republican theory of liberty’ Juncture 21 (2), pp. 131-5.

2015: ‘O svobode respublik’, in Sovremennaya Respublikanskaya Teoriya Svobody, ed. Evgeny Roshchin (St Petersburg, 2015), pp. 25-42.

2016a: ‘Hobbes and the social control of unsociability’ in The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes, ed. A. P. Martinich and Kinch Hoekstra (Oxford, 2016), pp. 430-48.

2016b: ‘Shakespeare and the Legal World’ Counsel Magazine, June, pp. 29-31.

Review articles

1964: ‘Hobbes’s Leviathan’, The Historical Journal 7, pp. 321-33.

1965: ‘On Two Traditions of English Political Thought’, The Historical Journal 8, pp. 136-9.

1967a: ‘Science and Society in Restoration England’, The Historical Journal 10, pp. 286-93.

1967b: ‘More’s Utopia’, Past and Present 38, pp. 153-68.

1970: ‘Christopher Hill and the Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution’ in The Cambridge Mind, ed. E. Homberger, W. Janeway and S. Schama (London, 1970), pp. 113-19.

1978a: ‘Milton, Satan and Subversion’, New York Review of Books, 23 March, pp. 6-9.

1978b: ‘The Flight from Positivism’, New York Review of Books, 15 June, pp. 26-8.

1978c: ‘The Lessons of Thomas More’, New York Review of Books, 14 August, pp. 57-60.

1979: ‘Taking Off’, New York Review of Books, 22 March, pp. 15-16.

1980: ‘Duellist’, New York Review of Books, 24 January, pp. 39-41.

1981a: ‘The End of Philosophy?’ New York Review of Books, 19 March, pp. 46-8.

1981b: ‘The World as a Stage’ New York Review of Books, 16 April, pp. 35-7.

1982: ‘Habermas’s Reformation’, New York Review of Books, 7 October, pp. 35-8.

1985: ‘Ms Machiavelli’, New York Review of Books, 14 March, pp. 29-30

1990: ‘The Past in the Present’, New York Review of Books, 12 April, pp. 36-7.

1991: ‘Who are "We"? Ambiguities of the Modern Self’, Inquiry 34, pp. 133-53.

1996: ‘Bringing Back a New Hobbes’, New York Review of Books, 4 April, pp. 58-61.

1999: ‘The Advancement of Francis Bacon’, New York Review of Books, 4 November, pp. 53-56.

2002: ‘A Third Concept of Liberty’, London Review of Books, 4 April, pp. 16-18.

2008: ‘What does it mean to be a free person’, London Review of Books, 22 May, pp. 16-18.

2014: ‘What should we learn from Machiavelli?’, New York Review of Books, 5 June, pp. 50-1.

Reviews

The American Historical Review; The Cambridge Review; Common Knowledge; The English Historical Review; The Historical Journal; The Journal of Political Economy; Lettera internazionale; Modern Philology; The New Statesman; Political Theory; The Spectator; Times Higher Education; Times Literary Supplement

Broadcasts

Numerous contributions to BBC talks programmes, including The Essay; In Our Time; Night Waves; Start the Week.

Interviews

1997: ‘An Interview with Quentin Skinner’, Cogito 11, pp. 69-78.

2000a: ‘Intervista a Quentin Skinner: Conseguire la libertà promuovere l’uguaglianza’, Il pensiero mazziniano 3, pp. 118-22.

2000b: ‘Entrevista: Quentin Skinner’ in As muitas faces da história, ed. Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke (Brazilia, 2000), pp. 307-39.

2001: ‘Quentin Skinnerin haastattelu’, Niin & Näin 31, pp. 8-23.

2002: ‘Encountering the Past: An Interview with Quentin Skinner’ Finnish Yearbook of Political Thought 6, pp. 32-63.

2003a:‘Quentin Skinner’, in The New History: Confessions and Conversations, ed. Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 212-40.

2003b: ‘La Libertà Politica ed il Mestiere dello Storico: Intervista a Quentin Skinner’, Teoria Politica 19, pp. 177-85.

2006: ‘Historia intelectual y acción política: Una entrevista con Quentin Skinner’, Historia y Política 16, pp. 237-58.

2007a: ‘Neither text, nor context: An interview with Quentin Skinner’, Groniek: Historisch Tijdschrift 174, pp. 117-33.

2007b: ‘La Historia de mi Historia: Una Entrevista con Quentin Skinner’, El giro contextual: Cinco ensayos de Quentin Skinner y seis comentarios, ed. Enrique Bocardo Crespo, (Madrid, 2007), pp. 45-60.

2007c: ‘Intellectual History, Liberty and Republicanism: An Interview with Quentin Skinner’, Contributions to the History of Concepts 3, pp. 102-23.

2007d: ‘Storia, retorica, interpretazione: Un percorso di studi’, Intersezioni 27, pp. 265-72.

2008 ‘Making history: the discipline in perspective’, interview with Danny Millum, transcript available on line, published in 2009a.

2009a: ‘Making History; The Discipline in Perspective: Interview with Professor Quentin Skinner’, Storia e Politica, 1, pp. 113-34.

2009b: ‘Wie frei sint wir wirklich?’ Fragen an Quentin Skinner’, Zeitschrift fűr Ideengeschichte 3, pp. 5-21.

2009c: ‘Intervista a Quentin Skinner a cura di Giulia Pravato’ Post 1, pp. 127-38.

2010: ‘The Interpreter of Texts. Interview with Quentin Skinner, Slagmark 57, pp. 171-90.

2011a: ‘An Interview with Quentin Skinner’, Contemporary Political Theory 10, pp. 273–85.

2011b: ‘Quentin Skinner on meaning and method’, Art of theory, online, November 2011.

2011c: ‘Quentin Skinner’s context’, Art of theory, online, December 2011.

2011d: ‘En samtele met Quentin Skinner’ in Quentin Skinner, Staten og Friheten, ed. Helge Jordheim and Håvard Nilsen (Oslo, 2011), pp. 29-51.

2012a: ‘Approaching Political Theory Historically: An Interview with Quentin Skinner’ in Dialogues with Contemporary Political Theorists, ed. Gary Browning, Raia Prokhovnik and Maria Duimova-Cookson (Basingstoke, 2012), pp. 181-95.

2012b ‘Quentin Skinner answers r/HistoryofIdeas's questions!’ [available at

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2013a: ‘Le prince de machiavel: une oeuvre du passé pour le présent’, Entretien avec Quentin Skinner, Bulles de savoir, 7 August 2013.

2013b: ‘Historia y política en perspectiva: Entrevista a Quentin Skinner’, Signos filosóficos 29, pp. 167-91. Also published in Greek in Synchrona Themata 2012, pp. 36-46.

2013c: ‘An Interview with Professor Quentin Skinner’, Intellectual History 2, pp. 239-62.

2013d: ‘Quentin Skinner’ in Intellectual History: Five Questions, ed. Morten Haugaard et al. (Aarhus, 2013), pp. 155-9.

2014: ‘Interview met Quentin Skinner’, Skript: Historisch Tijdschrift 36, pp. 245-52.

2016: ‘Freedom as Non-dependence: An Interview with Quentin Skinner’. Available on the website of the Amsterdam Centre for Political Thought.

RECENT CONFERENCES on the work of Quentin Skinner

December 2008: ‘Quentin Skinner: From Method to Politics’, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York.

June 2013: ‘Contingency, Rhetoric, Liberty: Quentin Skinner as a European Thinker’, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: books about the work of Quentin Skinner

1988: Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics, ed. James Tully, Cambridge.

Translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean.

2003a: Kari Palonen, Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric, Cambridge.

2003b: Kari Palonen, Die Entzauberung der Begriffe: Das Umschreiben der politischen Begriffe bei Quentin Skinner und Reinhart Koselleck, Münster.

2006: Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, ed. Annabel Brett and James Tully, Cambridge.

2007: El giro contextual: Cinco ensayos de Quentin Skinner y seis comentarios, ed. Enrique Bocardo Crespo, Madrid.

2009: Quentin Skinner: Politik og historie: En tekstsamling, ed. Frank Beck Lassen & Mikkel Thorup, Copenhagen.

2012: Salvatore Muscolino, Linguaggio, storia e politica: Ludwig Wittgenstein e Quentin Skinner, Palermo.

2013: Marcus Erben, Begriffswandel als Sprachhandlung: Der Beitrag Quentin Skinners zur Methodologie und Funktionsbestimmung der pädagogischen Geschichtsschreibung, Frankfurt.

2016: Quentin Skinner: Metoda historyczna i wolność republikańska, ed. Janusz Grygieńć, Toruń.

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