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John Robertson is Honorary Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of St Andrews and Professor Emeritus of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. Previously he taught at Oxford, and he has held visiting appointments in the United States, Italy, France and China. He is a Foreign Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, Naples. His publications include The Case for the Enlightenment. Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 (2005), The Enlightenment. A Very Short Introduction (2015) and, as editor, A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707 (1995) and Andrew Fletcher: Political Works (1997).
'This, in sum, is an ambitious volume, which seeks to win over Hobbes' successors in the timeless 'science of politics' on the one hand, and sceptics about the 'temporal turn' on the other. That it has any chance of success, in both pursuits, owes to the fact that the essays all impressively steer the course between the Scylla of wishy-washy pretension and the Charybdis of banality.' Samuel Rubinstein, Oxford Political Review
