Thinking about Liberty: An Historian's Approach
Skineer, Quentin
In Thinking About Liberty: An Historian¿s Approach, the eminent historian QuentinSkinner traces a path in the history of ideas that involves different ways of thinkingabout liberty ¿ a central concept in social and political thought in today¿s Westerndemocracies ¿ that are different from the usual liberal expectation. The definition offreedom as the absence of interference (by external agencies or by the self ), thoughwidespread, was by no mea...