Quentin Skinner: “Concepts only have histories”.

Abstract

Emmanuelle Tricoire (ET) : What about your field? What is your field? QS: Well that is, immediately, a difficult question. I was for nearly twenty years the Professor of Political Science at Cambridge, but my present Chair is in the Faculty of History. My official title is Regius Professor of Modern History. I suppose that, by formation and existentially, I am a historian, definitely, rather than anything else. But obviously, I have studied philosophy as well, and I have taught both ...