Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum

2022 ◽  

This volume is the first complete critical edition of Peter of Auvergne’s Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. The Questiones was produced at the Faculty of Arts of Paris sometime between late 1291 and 1296 and is the earliest surviving commentary in question form on Aristotle’s Politics. As the introduction explains, the Questiones was philosophically innovative and became the most influential question-commentary on the Politics in the Middle Ages. The volume also includes a critical edition of an earlier oral report (reportatio) of Peter’s teaching on Books I-II and part of III which became the basis for those sections of the Questiones. This volume is of interest to scholars of medieval philosophy and the history of political thought and is a reference point for future research on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s Politics and medieval Aristotelian practical philosophy more broadly.

2018 ◽  
pp. 355-362
Author(s):  
А. Задорнов

Выход перевода на русский язык исследования Квентина Скиннера, впервые изданного сорок лет назад, рождает закономерный вопрос о его актуальности и том контексте, который этот двухтомник неизбежно обрел с момента первого издания. Если ответ на первый вопрос очевиден: в русскоязычной литературе это пока единственное специальное фундаментальное исследование политической мысли Ренессанса и Реформации (конец XIII — начало XVI вв.), — то с контекстом дело обстоит сложнее.Целью данного труда автор считает решение трех задач: анализ источников по истории политической мысли Средневековья и раннего Модерна, формулировка на основе этих текстов новоевропейского концепта «государства» и презентация особого авторского подхода в области интерпретации исторических текстов. The Russian translation of Quentin Skinner's study, first published forty years ago, raises the legitimate question of its relevance and the context which this two-volume work has inevitably acquired since the first edition. While the answer to the first question is evident - it is so far the only special fundamental study of Renaissance and Reformation political thought in Russian-language literature (late thirteenth or early sixteenth century) - the context is more complex. The aim of this work is to solve three problems: the analysis of sources on the history of political thought of the Middle Ages and early Modernity, the formulation on the basis of these texts of the New European concept of "state" and the presentation of the author's special approach in the field of interpretation of historical texts.


1990 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 43-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bonney

THE ‘history of ideologies’ is now very much the vogue since Professor Quentin Skinner's fine study onThe foundations of modern political thought. Whether or not one agrees with all aspects of his interpretation of Bodin—and Dr Parker might argue that it fails to draw out sufficiently the moral philosopher inside the jurist, while Professor Rose might prefer to stress the Judaizing tendencies of the theorist as a central preoccupation—it is a testament to the decisive impact made by Skinner on the history of political thought that no-one has challenged his new and radical approach. It is no part of the purpose of this paper to do so. Indeed, an understanding both of Bodin's predecessors and of the ideological conflict of the 1570s which influenced the drafting of theSix bookes of a commonweale(the title given to theRépubliqueby its first English translator, Richard Knolles) is fundamental before any appreciation of the theorist can be made free from distortion. It is no use at all asserting that Bodin started from scratch, even on the issue of sovereignty, where he made his most original contribution. Bodin himself minimized his originality, basing his commentary on the powers historically enjoyed by French kings. The French king had traditionally regarded his authority as that ofprinceps legibus solutus, as an absolute ruler above the law. If the French king had been unable to do those things described by Bodin, in the view of that author, ‘il n'estoit pas Prince souverain’. Bodin also noted the contribution of the canon lawyers of the Middle Ages to the development of his political theory and remarked that Pope Innocent IV was he who best understood the nature of sovereignty.


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Bonotti ◽  
Jonathan White ◽  
Lea Leman Ypi ◽  
Gideon Calder ◽  
Mark Donovan ◽  
...  

Over the past 10 years, the literature on the normative dimensions of partisanship and party politics has rapidly grown. Yet, however rich and diverse, this literature lacked so far a single text able to comprehensively map the contours of the existing debates and, at the same time, open up a range of future research avenues. Jonathan White and Lea Ypi’s The Meaning of Partisanship does an excellent job at fulfilling both tasks. First, it offers a wide-ranging and sustained engagement with key debates in the history of political thought, contemporary democratic theory and analytical political philosophy. Second, it opens up new areas of research ranging from partisanship across time to revolutionary and transnational partisanship. In this symposium, White and Ypi re-examine some of the book’s main themes by responding to the commentaries offered by six political theorists.


2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 304-318
Author(s):  
Geoff Kennedy

AbstractThis article seeks to contextualise Ellen Meiksins Wood’s recent survey of classical and medieval political thought within the context of some of the prevailing approaches to the history of political thought. After an initial elaboration of Wood’s ‘political-Marxist’ approach to issues of historical development and contextualisation, I emphasise what is significant about Wood’s specific contribution to the study of Greek, Roman and medieval political ideas in particular, as well as to the history of political thought in general.


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