Perez Zagorin
Biographic Data
| ID | 279072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Perez Zagorin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Perez |
| FAMILY NAME | Zagorin |
| SIGNATURE | ZAGORIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Francis Bacon
Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England, 1640-1700
Hobbes as a Theorist of Natural Law
Since the 1950s the number of books and articles devoted to the philosophy of Hobbes has expanded so greatly that by now its quantity has become almost overwhelming and made him one of the most stu
Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader
This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez Zagorin answers this question by examining Thucydides' landmark History of the Peloponnesian War , one of the great classics of Western civilization. This history, Zagorin explains, is far more than a mere chronicle of the conflict between Athens and…
Proust for Historians
This essay deals with the relationship between the writer Proust and the work of the historian. It explains why Proust's great novel, À la recherche du temps perdu, should be of interest to historians and discusses his historical sensibility as a literary artist, his portrayal of French society and its changes during the era of the Third Republic up to the years after the first World War, and his observations on anti-Semitism and homosexuality in…
On humanism past & present
Looking for Pieter Bruegel
This essay survey the attempts by art historians to discover the meaning of the peasant paintings and other works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and to determine whether his oeuvre reflects any underlying philosophy. It examines some of the recent literature on Bruegel dealing with the question of his political allegiance, his supposed affiliation with the circle of distinguished intellectuals in Antwerp that included the printer-publisher Christoph…
Francis Bacon's concept of objectivity and the idols of the mind
This paper examines the concept of objectivity traceable in Francis Bacon's natural philosophy. After some historical background on this concept, it considers the question of whether it is not an anachronism to attribute such a concept to Bacon, since the word ‘objectivity’ is a later coinage and does not appear anywhere in his writings. The essay gives reasons for answering this question in the negative, and then criticizes the accounts given of…
Historiografia e pós-modernismo: Reconsiderações
Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon. Lisa Jardine , Alan Stewart
Two books on Thomas Hobbes
Two Books on Thomas Hobbes Perez Zagorin Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), xvi, 477p. The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes, ed. Noel Malcolm, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), lxxxv, 1008p. The literature on Hobbes in English and other European languages has grown so large in the past two decades that it has become almost unmanageable by students of the philosophe…
History, the Referent, and Narrative: Reflections on Postmodernism Now
This essay surveys the present position of postmodernism with respect to the effect of its ideas upon historiography. For this purpose it looks at a number of writings by historians that have been a response to postmodernism including the recently published collection of articles, The Postmodern History Reader. The essay argues that, in contrast to scholars in the field of literary studies, the American historical profession has been much more re…
Isaiah Berlin
Religion in the English Enlightenment: A Review Essay
The Political Beliefs of John Pym to 1629
The Political Beliefs of John Pym to 1629 PEREZ ZAGORIN PEREZ ZAGORIN University of RochesterNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 433, September 1994, Pages 867–890, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.433.867 Published: 01 September 1994
Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England, 1640-1700
Preface 1. Introduction Richard Kroll Part I. The Cambridge Platonists: Philosophy at Mid-Century: 2. Henry More, the Kabbalah, and the Quakers Alison P. Coudert 3. Edward Stillingfleet, Henry More, and the decline of Moses Atticus: a note on seventeenth-century Anglican apologetics Sarah Hutton 4. Latitudinarians, Neoplatonists, and the Ancient Wisdom Joseph M. Levine 5. Cudworth, More and the mechanical analogy Alan Gabbey 6. Cudworth and Hobbe…
The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700
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Hobbes's Early Philosophical Development
During the larger part of this century, especially in the United States and Britain, the study of Hobbes's thought has tended to focus much more on his political and moral philosophy than on his achievements in natural philosophy and his contribution to the scientific revolution. Since modem scholars regard Hobbes's political and moral theory as the most lastingly important part of his work, this emphasis is understandable. Yet not only were his …
Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England 1640–1700
This collection of essays looks at the distinctively English intellectual, social and political phenomenon of Latitudinarianism, which emerged during the Civil War and Interregnum and came into its own after the Restoration, becoming a virtual orthodoxy after 1688. Dividing into two parts, it first examines the importance of the Cambridge Platonists, who sought to embrace the newest philosophical and scientific movements within Church of England …
Ways of Lying: Dissimulation, Persecution, and Conformity in Early Modern Europe
The religious persecution and intellectual intolerance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries compelled many heterodox groups and thinkers to resort to misdirection, hidden meaning, secrecy, and deceit. In this highly unusual interpretation, Perez Zagorin traces the theory and practice of religious leaders, philosophers, intellectuals, and men of letters who used deception to cloak dissident beliefs. Zagorin surveys some of the chief sources …
Historiography and Postmodernism: Reconsiderations
Discussion critique de F. R. Ankersmit, qui propose d'appliquer a l'histoire le perspectivisme postmoderniste. P. 275-296, reponse de F. R. ANKERSMIT
Hobbes on our Mind
The title of this essay does not refer to Hobbes's conception of mental functioning but to the way he continues to loom in our mind as a philosopher.1 The year 1988 marked the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hobbes, who came into the world on 5 April 1588. A celebrated thinker in his own time, today his fame is greater than ever before. Most students place him among the preeminent British philosophers, to be compared with only a few ot…
Authority and Conflict: England, 1603-1658
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Did Strafford change sides
The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries. Christopher Hill
History, the Referent, and Narrative: Reflections on Postmodernism Now
This essay surveys the present position of postmodernism with respect to the effect of its ideas upon historiography. For this purpose it looks at a number of writings by historians that have been a response to postmodernism including the recently published collection of articles, The Postmodern History Reader. The essay argues that, in contrast to scholars in the field of literary studies, the American historical profession has been much more re…
Theories of Revolution in Contemporary Historiography
Revolution has been the subject of investigation by philosophers and historians since almost the beginning of the Western intellectual tradition. Plato and Aristotle were the first to deal with revolution as a theoretical problem and Thucydides the first to give it reflective historical treatment.2 No one who reads it is likely to forget Thucydides' penetrating account of revolutionary psychology and the effects of class war upon the Greek states…
Thomas Hobbes's Departure from England in 1640: An Unpublished Letter
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Francis Bacon's concept of objectivity and the idols of the mind
This paper examines the concept of objectivity traceable in Francis Bacon's natural philosophy. After some historical background on this concept, it considers the question of whether it is not an anachronism to attribute such a concept to Bacon, since the word ‘objectivity’ is a later coinage and does not appear anywhere in his writings. The essay gives reasons for answering this question in the negative, and then criticizes the accounts given of…
The Social Interpretation of the English Revolution
The discussion of the social character of the English revolution is carried on at present largely in terms of the well-known controversy over the gentry. The debate which has been conducted has undoubtedly been welcomed by all historians as a valuable stimulus to think afresh and more deeply about the seventeenth century. But the preoccupation with the gentry, instructive as it has been, has also had its disadvantages, for it has served, I think,…
Historiography and Postmodernism: Reconsiderations
Discussion critique de F. R. Ankersmit, qui propose d'appliquer a l'histoire le perspectivisme postmoderniste. P. 275-296, reponse de F. R. ANKERSMIT
Vico's Theory of Knowledge: A Critique
Journal Article Vico's Theory of Knowledge: A Critique Get access Perez Zagorin Perez Zagorin University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 134, January 1984, Pages 15–30, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218884 Published: 01 January 1984
Prolegomena to the Comparative History of Revolution in Early Modern Europe
There are at least two reasons which might be cited for undertaking the historical and comparative investigation of revolution. The first is the desire to make a revolution, the second is the desire to prevent it. Perhaps nearly everybody is susceptible to the one reason or the other, but there is yet a third reason that gives the study of revolution an outstanding interest and significance, even though its appeal is doubtless much more limited t…
Proust for Historians
This essay deals with the relationship between the writer Proust and the work of the historian. It explains why Proust's great novel, À la recherche du temps perdu, should be of interest to historians and discusses his historical sensibility as a literary artist, his portrayal of French society and its changes during the era of the Third Republic up to the years after the first World War, and his observations on anti-Semitism and homosexuality in…
The Political Beliefs of John Pym to 1629
The Political Beliefs of John Pym to 1629 PEREZ ZAGORIN PEREZ ZAGORIN University of RochesterNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 433, September 1994, Pages 867–890, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.433.867 Published: 01 September 1994
Hobbes's Early Philosophical Development
During the larger part of this century, especially in the United States and Britain, the study of Hobbes's thought has tended to focus much more on his political and moral philosophy than on his achievements in natural philosophy and his contribution to the scientific revolution. Since modem scholars regard Hobbes's political and moral theory as the most lastingly important part of his work, this emphasis is understandable. Yet not only were his …
Clarendon and Hobbes
Sir Edward Stanhope's Advice to Thomas Wentworth, Viscount Wentworth, Concerning the Deputyship of Ireland: An Unpublished Letter of 1631
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The Court and the Country: A Note on Political Terminology in the earlier Seventeenth Century
Journal Article The Court and the Country: A Note on Political Terminology in the earlier Seventeenth Century Get access PEREZ ZAGORIN PEREZ ZAGORIN McGill University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVII, Issue CCCIII, April 1962, Pages 306–311, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVII.CCCIII.306 Published: 01 April 1962
De iure praedae commentaries
Musicians in English Society from Elizabeth to Charles I . Walter C. Woodfill
The Reign of King Covenant. Jane Lane
The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law . J. G. A. Pocock
Puritanism in the Period of the Great Persecution, 1660-1688 . G. R. Cragg
Historical Knowledge: A Review Article on the Philosophy of History
The Social Interpretation of the English Revolution
The discussion of the social character of the English revolution is carried on at present largely in terms of the well-known controversy over the gentry. The debate which has been conducted has undoubtedly been welcomed by all historians as a valuable stimulus to think afresh and more deeply about the seventeenth century. But the preoccupation with the gentry, instructive as it has been, has also had its disadvantages, for it has served, I think,…
Commercial Crisis and Change in England, 1600-1642: A Study in the Instability of a Mercantile Economy
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London and the Outbreak of the Puritan Revolution: City Government and National Politics, 1625-1643
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Reappraisals in History
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
The Court and the Country: A Note on Political Terminology in the earlier Seventeenth Century
Journal Article The Court and the Country: A Note on Political Terminology in the earlier Seventeenth Century Get access PEREZ ZAGORIN PEREZ ZAGORIN McGill University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVII, Issue CCCIII, April 1962, Pages 306–311, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVII.CCCIII.306 Published: 01 April 1962
Sir Edward Stanhope's Advice to Thomas Wentworth, Viscount Wentworth, Concerning the Deputyship of Ireland: An Unpublished Letter of 1631
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The Catholic Laity in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603
English History, 1558-1640: A Bibliographical Survey
Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution
The Anarchists. James Joll
The Court and the Country: The Beginning of the English Revolution
The Court and the Country: The Beginning of the English Revolution
Theories of Revolution in Contemporary Historiography
Revolution has been the subject of investigation by philosophers and historians since almost the beginning of the Western intellectual tradition. Plato and Aristotle were the first to deal with revolution as a theoretical problem and Thucydides the first to give it reflective historical treatment.2 No one who reads it is likely to forget Thucydides' penetrating account of revolutionary psychology and the effects of class war upon the Greek states…
Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum
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Parliamentary Reform 1640-1832
Theories of Revolution in Contemporary Historiography
Prolegomena to the Comparative History of Revolution in Early Modern Europe
There are at least two reasons which might be cited for undertaking the historical and comparative investigation of revolution. The first is the desire to make a revolution, the second is the desire to prevent it. Perhaps nearly everybody is susceptible to the one reason or the other, but there is yet a third reason that gives the study of revolution an outstanding interest and significance, even though its appeal is doubtless much more limited t…
Thomas Hobbes's Departure from England in 1640: An Unpublished Letter
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The City And the Court, 1603-1643
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