Visions of politics

• Volume I
• General Introduction

• Acknowledgments

• Notes on the text

• 1
• Introduction: seeing things their way

• 2
• The practice of history and the cult of the fact

• 3
• Interpretation, rationality and truth

• 4
• Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas

• 5
• Motives, intentions and interpretation

• 6
• Interpretation and the understanding of speech acts

• 7
• 'Social meaning' and the explanation of social action

• 8
• Moral principles and social change

• 9
• The idea of a cultural lexicon

• 10
• Retrospect: Studying rhetoric and conceptual change

• Volume II

• 1
• Introduction

• 2
• The rediscovery of republican values

• 3
• Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the portrayal of virtuous government

• 4
• Ambrogio Lorenzetti on the power and glory of republics

• 5
• Republican virtues in an age of princes

• 6
• Machiavelli on virtu and the maintenance of liberty

• 7
• The idea of negative liberty: Machiavelli and modern perspectives

• 8
• Thomas More's Utopia and the virtue of true nobility

• 9
• Was there a Calvinist theory of revolution?

• 10
• Moral ambiguity and the renaissance art of eloquence

• 11
• John Milton and the politics of slavery

• 12
• Classical liberty, Renaissance translation and the English civil war

• 13
• From the state of princes to the modern state

• 14
• Augustan party politics and Renaissance constitutional thought

• Volume III

• 1
• Introduction: Hobbes's career in philosophy

• 2
• Hobbes and the studia humanitatis

• 3
• Hobbes's changing conception of a civil science

• 4
• Hobbes on rhetoric and the construction of morality

• 5
• Hobbes and the purely artificial person of the state

• 6
• Hobbes on the proper signification of liberty

• 7
• Hobbes and the classical theory of laughter

• 8
• History and ideology in the English revolution

• 9
• The context of Hobbes's theory of political obligation

• 10
• Conquest and consent: Hobbes and the engagement controversy

• 11
• Hobbes and his disciples in France and England

• 12
• Hobbes and the politics of the early Royal Society

• 13
• Hobbes's last word on politics