Quentin Skinner 'Person of State'

Series: Interpreting the interpreters of medieval governance

Social Science Files research exhibit focusing on the term ‘state’.

Category type 7 rank over status society.

I have read a lot of ‘Skinner on Hobbes’ but the final paragraph of this recently published chapter appears to me to be one of culminating synthesis and clarity.

“The state is, in the end, nothing other than ourselves.”