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Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner is Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. His latest book, Forensic Shakespeare, will be published later this year. (June 2014)

The Advancement of Francis Bacon

Philosophical Studies c.1611-c.1619

by Francis Bacon, edited by Graham Rees

Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon

by Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart

Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination

by Nieves Mathews

Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

by B.H.G. Wormald

Francis Bacon

by Perez Zagorin

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November 4, 1999 issue

Bringing Back a New Hobbes

The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes

edited by Noel Malcolm

Three Discourses: A Critical Modern Edition of Newly Identified Work of the Young Hobbes

by Thomas Hobbes, edited by Noel B Reynolds, edited by Arlene W Saxonhouse

April 4, 1996 issue

Habermas’s Reformation

The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School

by Raymond Geuss

Knowledge and Human Interests

by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Jeremy Shapiro

Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics

by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Jeremy Shapiro

Theory and Practice

by Jürgen Habermas, translated by John Viertel

Legitimation Crisis

by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Thomas McCarthy

Communication and the Evolution of Society

by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Thomas McCarthy

Theorie der Gesellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie

by Jürgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann

The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas

by Thomas McCarthy

Habermas: Critical Debates

edited by John B. Thompson, edited by David Held

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October 7, 1982 issue

The World as a Stage

Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali

by Clifford Geertz

April 16, 1981 issue

Duellist

Reappraisals in History: New Views on History and Society in Early Modern Europe

by J.H. Hexter

On Historians: Reappraisals of Some of the Masters of Modern History

by J.H. Hexter

January 24, 1980 issue

Taking Off

World Accumulation, 1492-1789

by Andre Gunder Frank

The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

edited by Geoffrey Parker, edited by Lesley M. Smith

Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule

by Reinhard Bendix

March 22, 1979 issue

The Lesson of Thomas More

The Lesson of Thomas More

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 2: The History of King Richard III

edited by Richard S. Sylvester

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 3 (Part I): Translations of Lucian

edited by Craig R. Thompson

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 4: Utopia

edited by Edward Surtz, edited by S. J. and J. H. Hexter

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 5: Responsio ad Lutherum

edited by John M. Headley, translated by Sister Scholastica Mandeville

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 8: The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer

edited by Louis A. Schuster, edited by Richard C. Marius, edited by James P. Lusardi, edited by Richard J. Schoeck

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 12: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation

edited by Louis L. Martz, edited by Frank Manley

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 13: Treatise on the Passion; Treatise on the Blessed Body; Instructions and Prayers

edited by Garry E. Haupt

The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 14 (Parts I and I): De Tristitia Christi

edited by Clarence H. Miller

Utopia

by Thomas More, translated and edited by Robert M. Adams

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October 12, 1978 issue

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