Rethinking Modern Political Theory [antikvár]

Preface The essays in this collection were written (or in one instance, extensively rewritten) between 1979 and 1983.1 am grateful to many friends and colleagues for encouragement and assistance in connection with them. I should particularly like to thank Anouar Abdel-Malek, John Barber, Cynthia Farrar, Bianca Fontana, Paul Ginsborg, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Istvan Hont, Susan James, Jonathan Lear and Quentin Skinner. I am grateful to the editors and publishers for permission to reprint those chapters which have been previously published or which were prepared for other occasions: Chapter i was first printed in Reinhard Brandt (ed), John Locke Symposium. Wolfenbüttel 1979, W. de Gruyter & Co., Berlin and New York 1981. Chapter 2 was first printed in Richard Rorty, Jerry Schneewind, and Quentin Skinner (eds). Philosophy in History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1984. Chapter 3 was first printed in Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff (eds). Wealth and Virtue, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983. Chapter4Ís reprinted from Lí/7í'cs, xcii,January 1982, 229-315,by permission of the University of Chicago Press. Chapter 5 is reprinted from Totalitarian Democracy and After: Colloquium in Memory of Jacob Talmon, The Israel Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jerusalem 1985. Chapter 6 was prepared for a Colloquium at the Istituto Gramsci, Firenze on the centenary of Marx's death. Chapter 7 is reprinted from Christopher Lloyd (ed). Social Theory and Political Practice; Wolf son College Lectures 1981, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1983, by permission ofthe President and Fellows of Wolfson College and Oxford University Press. Chapter 8 was prepared for the United Nations University's Collo- IX