Wolfson History Prize
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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
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge | — | History | double-starred first | 1959-1962 | United Kingdom |
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
History
Degree:
double-starred first
Period:
1959-1962
Year of Graduation:
1962
Country:
United Kingdom
Entrance scholarship
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Wolfson History Prize | The Foundations of Modern Political Thought | — | Wolfson Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2006 | Balzan Prize | — | 政治思想史 | Balzan Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2008 | Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis | — | — | — | 受賞 |
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 historyExplores 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