Michael Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on the history of political thought / Martyn P. Thompson.
"This book is a critique of Cambridge School Historical Contextualism as the currently dominant mode of history of political thought, drawing upon Michael Oakeshott's analysis of the logic of historical enquiry"--
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Two historiographical problems in search of solutions. Introduction: The two problems ; Logic and method in intellectual history
- Part II: The pastness of past political thinking. The "pastness" of the historical past ; Oakeshott on the history of political thought ; Pocock and Skinner on Oakeshott
- Part III: The varieties of past political thinking. Hobbes's Leviathan: ideology and philosophy ; The logic of the history of political philosophy
- Conclusion: The use and abuse of history.