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Quentin Skinner

Series featuring Quentin Skinner

  • The State of the State
  • Exploring Humanities - The Ertegun Scholarship Programme
# Episode Title Description People Date
2 Conversation with Quentin Skinner A wide-ranging conversation between historian Professor Quentin Skinner and the members of the Ertegun House community, led by Ertegun House Director, Professor Rhodri Lewis. Quentin Skinner 17 Mar 2017
1 Creative Commons The Idea of the State: a Genealogy Quentin Skinner gives a genealogy of the modern state, arguing that we should not understand the state simply as the government, but rather as a fictional person, enabling us to explain such things as shared responsibility for debt over generations. Quentin Skinner 11 May 2010