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Quentin Skinner

クエンティン・スキナー

Kuentin Skinner

Aliases: Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1940-11-26 (Oldham)
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
Cambridge → London

Career

Occupations
intellectual historian, historian, political scientist
Active Years
1962-
Affiliations
Christ's College, Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London
Memberships
Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Influenced By
R. G. Collingwood, Peter Laslett, J. G. A. Pocock, Bertrand Russell, Keith Thomas, Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin
Influenced
J. G. A. Pocock, John Dunn, David Armitage

Education

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
History
Degree: double-starred first
Period: 1959-1962
Year of Graduation: 1962
Country: United Kingdom
Entrance scholarship

Awards

Wolfson History Prize
1979
Work: The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Organization: Wolfson Foundation
Result: 受賞
Balzan Prize
2006
Category: 政治思想史
Organization: Balzan Foundation
Result: 受賞
Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis
2008
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

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

1978 Intellectual history

Explores the foundations of modern political thought during the Renaissance

political thoughtRenaissance
Translations
  • Translated into Japanese

Bibliography

  • The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
  • Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes

Style & Themes

Literary Style
contextualismspeech act theory
Recurring Motifs
political languagehistorical context

Legacy

Regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of intellectual history

Academic Societies

  • British Academy

Trivia

  • Member of the Cambridge Apostles
  • Contemporary with Amartya Sen in the Apostles