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Quentin Skinner and Hobbes’s artificial person of the state redux

From humanism to Hobbes: studies in rhetoric and politics, by Quentin Skinner, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1/31/2018 (paperback), ISBN: 9781107569362

Patricia SpringborgCentre for British Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 732-778 | Published online: 30 Oct 2019

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