Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas and beyond / edited by Adrian Blau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blau, Adrian, 1972- editor.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 281.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 281

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skinner, Quentin. Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas.

Skinner, Quentin.

Political science--History.

Political science.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xv, 306 pages : illustrations, portrait, charts ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : The British Academy, 2026.

Summary:

Quentin Skinner is one of the world's leading historians. His work includes pioneering studies of Machiavelli and Hobbes, as well as important research on changing ideas of liberty and the state.

"This is the first book-length analysis of Quentin Skinner's seminal essay 'Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas'. Skinner's essay is one of the most influential historical articles ever published, written by one of the world's most prominent scholars in intellectual history and a leading figure in the so-called 'Cambridge School' of the history of political thought. Skinner's essay defended a strongly historical approach to interpreting historical texts: without an appropriately historical mentality and historical method, Skinner argued, the result is mythology, not history. Skinner's contextualism has always been controversial, but many previous commentators have caricatured his position. The authors in this volume seek to be fair to Skinner, while disagreeing with him to greater or lesser extents. Chapters in this interdisciplinary collection cover many issues, including: the previously unknown first draft of Skinner's essay; Skinner's theoretical and philosophical foundations; how well his ideas stand up in Islamic, ancient Greek, and Indian contexts; ideology, rhetoric and language; and what Skinner's historical method could look like in the age of digital humanities and computational text analysis. The book concludes with Skinner's response to his commentators and critics."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Part I: Skinner's Historical and Theoretical Foundations

Understanding 'Meaning and Understanding': Context, Content, and Discontent / Adrian Blau

Yet Another Contest of the Faculties? Quentin Skinner on Meaning and Understanding in the History of Philosophy / James Gordon Finlayson

Learning from the History of Political Thought: The Figure of the Cook in Skinner, Passmore, Lenin, and Plato / Melissa Lane

Quentin Skinner and the Historical Interpretation of Political Philosophy / A. P. Martinich

Part II: Expanding Skinner's Contexts

Meaning, Context, Interpretations in the Islamic Tradition: Provincialising Skinnerian Contextualism / Humeira Iqtidar

Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ancient Greek Political Thought / Carol Atack

Methods vs Purposes in Skinner: For a Texualist Approach to Constitutional and Parliamentary Debates / Rochana Bajpai

Part III: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Language

Quentin Skinner and the Analysis of Ideology / Jonathan Leader Maynard

Ideological Innovation, Rhetorical Political Analysis, and English Protest Songs / Alan Finlayson

How (Not) To Understand Nature: Margaret Cavendish's Response to the Rhetorical Situation of the Scientific Revolutions / Sophia Hatzisavvidou

Quentin Skinner's Approach from a Sociolinguistic Perspective / Sali A. Tagliamonte

Part IV: Contextual Analysis in the Digital Age

Computational Methods in Intellectual History / Mikko Tolonen and Yann Ryan

Contextual Analysis in the Computer Age: The Case of Hobbes / Jacqueline Basu and Alison McQueen

Part V: Response from Quentin Skinner

A Rejoinder / Quentin Skinner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1836245750

9781836245759

OCLC:

1523907541

Publisher Number:

CIPO000333806