Freedom and the Construction of Europe

by Quentin Skinner

Book Overview

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108817785
• ISBN13: 9781108817783
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"