Political Thought and History
Political Thought and History
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USDJohn Pocock is arguably the most original and imaginative historian of ideas of modern times. Over the past half century he has created an audience for his work which is truly global, and he has marked the way in which the history of political thought is studied as deeply and personally as any historian of the period. The essays in this major new collection are selected from a lifetime of thinking about political thought, and how we should study it in history. What in fact does it mean to write the history of a political society, and what kind of political thought is this? Professor Pocock emphasises both the theory and practice of political thought considered as action in history, and the political theory of historiography considered as a form of political thought. Together these essays constitute a collection that any serious student of politics and intellectual history needs to possess.
- World famous author
- Compiles the major methodological statements in political thought over the last 40 years
- Pocock is a massively influential thinker in the field of the history of ideas and so this is a very important work
Reviews & endorsements
"Pocock's most notable qualities, his wide-ranging erudition, his humour, his commitment to a humane political life, are all on display in abundance in these essays."
Canadian Journal of Political Science, Kenneth McIntyre, Concordia University
"The connections Pocock draws between history, citizenship and identity offer promising new directions of further research into the power of 'storytelling' and 'myth-making.'"
The Review of Politics, Lisa Pace Vetter
Product details
February 2009Hardback
9780521886574
298 pages
234 × 157 × 18 mm
0.59kg
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Part I. Political Thought as History:
- 1. The history of political thought: a methodological enquiry
- 2. Working on ideas in time
- 3. Verbalizing a political act: towards a politics of speech
- 4. Political ideas as historical events
- political philosophers as historical actors
- 5. The reconstruction of discourse: towards the historiography of political thought
- 6. The concept of a language and the metier d'historien: some considerations on practice
- 7. Texts as events: reflections on the history of political thought
- 8. Quentin Skinner: the history of politics and the politics of history
- Part II. History as Political Thought:
- 9. The origins of study of the past: a comparative approach
- 10. Time, institutions and action: an essay on traditions and their understanding
- 11. The historian as political actor in polity, society and academy
- 12. The politics of history: the subaltern and the subversive
- 13. The politics of historiography.
