Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The Renaissance background; 2. Scepticism, stoicism and raison d'etat; 3. The spread of the new humanism; 4. The alternatives; 5. Hugo Grotius; 6. The English Revolution; 7. Thomas Hobbes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Major new study of European political thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Reviews

'This is at once a most elegant survey and a highly original work. … this book will be recognised as the most fertile history of political thought in the early modern period.' Ian Harris, Journal of Political Studies