Handbook Political Theory.pdf

discipline possessing its own rules: that is to say, the statements it aims to construct acknowledge certain procedures accordin ...

The historian, then, may be thought of as scrutinizing the actions and activity of political theory, and asking questions about ...

Skinner and others, 2 has taken the form of a close scrutiny of the history—a key word has been ‘‘context’’—in which texts and p ...

Works on the history of political thought, written in the above manner, tend to be microhistories rather than macrohistories, st ...

the Wrst place, we should suppose the theorist to be carrying out a pro- gramme of theoretical enquiry, possessing its own disci ...

the former (with which the historian, as historian, is primarily concerned); that is without doing violence to the past author’s ...

has happened accidentally; the theorist happens to have read this text, and it happens that its language lends itself to this th ...

theorist is engaged, or whether they are incidental or accidental to it. If the former, the theorist is claiming to make histori ...

Skinner,Q. 1978 .The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press. —— 2002 .Visions of Polit ...

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true not only of our ethical ideas but also of our political ideas, and not just of our ethical and political ideas but also of ...

engagement (Salkever 1986 ) absent from the poets and historians, while others seek andWnd continuities not necessarily of form ...

Because theorizing about sets of stable and changing human practices is not particularly precise, these political theorists do n ...

study, bringing diVerent interpretative strategies to bear, where appropriate. This means that they treat the poetry of Homer di ...

along with their analysis and evaluation by the classical poets, playwrights, historians, and philosophers, ‘‘are what they are ...

Athenian audiences, but depicting events in Thebes and Argos (Zeitlin 1986 ), and Plato and Aristotle’s treatments of the manly ...

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referring to their works in his own; he invites his readers to bring into conversation diVerent parts of his texts by his use of ...

sacriWced by her father, Agamemnon to propitiate the gods so that the Greeks can continue their expedition against Troy. Is this ...

his understanding of virtue as constituted by habits and actions informed by nature and culture (Nicomachean EthicsI. 8 and II. ...