Quentin Skinner

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1. Quentin Skinner

   Author of Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2: The Age of Reformation, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes

2. J. G. A. Pocock

   Author of The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History, Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (Ideas in Cont

3. Carl Schmitt

   Author of The Concept of the Political, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, Political Romanticism

4. Bonnie Honig

   Author of Democracy and the Foreigner, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Contestations), Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy

5. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of Knowledge and Human Interests, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social, The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

6. Isaiah Berlin

   Author of Four Essays on Liberty, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas

7. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy (Ideas in Context)

8. Sheldon S. Wolin

   Author of Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought, Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life, The Presence of the Past: Essays on the State and the Constitution (The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought)

9. Richard Tuck

   Author of Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development, The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant, Philosophy and Government 1572-1651 (Ideas in Context)

10. Leo Strauss

    Author of Thoughts on Machiavelli, On Tyranny, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis (Phoenix Books)

11. Philip Pettit

    Author of Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government (Oxford Political Theory), Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

12. James Tully

    Author of Meaning and Context, An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts (Ideas in Context)

13. Raymond Geuss

    Author of The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Modern European Philosophy), Philosophy and Real Politics, Politics and the Imagination

14. Bernard Williams

    Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57), Truth and truthfulness: an essay in genealogy

15. Judith N. Shklar

    Author of Ordinary Vices (Belknap Press), Political Thought and Political Thinkers, Redeeming American Political Thought

16. Michael Oakeshott

    Author of Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, On Human Conduct (Clarendon Paperbacks), Experience and its Modes (Cambridge Paperback Library)

17. Julia Annas

    Author of Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Plato: A Very Short Introduction

18. Pierre Manent

    Author of An Intellectual History of Liberalism, The City of Man

19. Joshua Foa Dienstag

    Author of Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit, Dancing in Chains: Narrative and Memory in Political Theory

20. Hans Blumenberg

    Author of The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Work on Myth (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)