Political thought and history
Subtitle: essays on theory and method
By: J.G.A. Pocock.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780521886574; 9780521714068
Subjects: Political science; Political science -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The history of political thought : a methodological inquiry; title: Working on ideas in time; title: Verbalizing a political act : towards a politics of speech; title: Political ideas as historical events : political philosophers as historical actors; title: The reconstruction of discourse : towards the historiography of political thought; title: The concept of a language and the métier d'historien : some considerations on practice; title: Texts as events : reflections on the history of political thought; title: Quentin Skinner : the history of politics and the politics of history; title: The origins of study of the past : a comparative approach; title: Time, institutions and action : an essay on traditions and their understanding; title: The historian as political actor in polity, society and academy; title: The politics of history : the subaltern and the subversive; title: The politics of historiography.