Visions of Politics: Renaissance Virtues (Volume II)
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Visions of Politics: Renaissance Virtues (Volume II)
Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics: Renaissance Virtues (Volume II)
Cambridge University Press | ISBN 0521589258 | 2002 | PDF | 5 MB | 495 pages
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As the title of this volume intimates, I see considerable virtue in continuing to speak about the era of the Renaissance. This commitment needs defending, however, since the concept of the Renaissance has in recent times fallen into disrepute, and a number of reasons have been given for avoiding it. One is simply that the term is too vague to be of much use. A second doubt has stemmed from the post-modern critique of meta-narratives and the teleological forms of historical writing to which they give rise. But the most widespread suspicion has arisen from the fact that the metaphor embodied in speaking of the Renaissance
