Machiavelli, Harrington and English Political Ideologies in the Eighteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3274372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J G A Pocock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 549 |
| Publication date | 1965-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1922910 |
| OpenAlex | W2332764743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
HE study of past political ideas is an activity which may be undertaken for at least three methodologically distinguishable types of reason. For the historian it is primarily, I think, the study of the language used in a particular society to discuss political problems, and of the light thrown, often inadvertently, by the use of that language upon the character of that society and the events taking place in it. For the political scientist it is-somewhat more abstractly-the study of the rise and the role of an organized political language in a society's political activity, or in the political activity of society in general. Lastly, the political philosopher studies the ideas of the past with a view to seeing which of them are worth using, rephrasing, criticizing, or employing as the foundation of other propositions in the making of statements about politics abstractly considered. It is in the first of these characters, that of the historian, that I wish to appear in this paper. I aim at saying something about a current of political discourse that ran through the life of the English-speaking peoples in the eighteenth century, and at eliciting from the relevant material a few propositions about the social and intellectual world in which those peoples, and especially the English themselves, may be said to have lived. It should be clear already that I shall be dealing with that vexed yet favorite topic of the relation of ideas to social reality, but I shall be doing so in tones of extreme caution. The slogan that ideas ought to be studied in their social and political context is, it seems to me, in danger of becoming a shibboleth; too many of those who pronounce it assume, often unconsciously, that they already know what the relations between ideas and social real
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| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,66 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2025 (56) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |