Quentin Skinner
Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940, Oldham, Lancashire) is the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London and an influential intellectual historian, best known for his work on the seventeenth-century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
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