This fine study will repay the attention of those who want to understand early modern political philosophy as well as those seeking to puzzle out the native human ambivalence about risk.
-Thomas W. Merrill, Review of Politics An Age of Risk reconstructs the role of risk and uncertainty in regulating the ideas of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith, to ... Read moreproduce an engaging genealogy of a modern, anxious liberalism. Its fluid prose and nuanced argument cleverly challenges risk-averse liberals who think the history of political and economic thought has nothing to teach them.
Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge How have political theorists dealt with risks? How have political theorists conceived of politics and argued about it? Staging an illuminating conversation between our own concerns about risk and uncertainty and the canonical texts of early modern English political theory, An Age of Risk answers these questions with grace, elegance, and lucidity. I read this impressive book with admiration and pleasure.
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