...This concluding chapter entertains the idea of Niccolò Machiavelli possibly dismissing Leo Strauss, J.G.A. Pocock, Quentin Skinner, and even Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in much the same manner that he disdained “the writers” who comprised the Western tradition of ancient and medieval political thought...

... the emergence of a self-conscious Cambridge School. history of political thought Cambridge School Quentin Skinner late medieval political thought early modern political thought In the 1960s, Quentin Skinner began publishing a series of more or less methodological papers on historical explanation...

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