Taking Text Seriously
Remarks on the Methodology of the History of Political Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4736731 |
|---|---|
| Authors | João Feres Junior (0000-0002-5830-0458, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contributions to the History of Concepts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1807-9326 • E-ISSN: 1874-656X |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1163/187465608x290806 |
| OpenAlex | W2138119231 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Quentin Skinner's methodological project contains a fundamental imprecision that is rarely mentioned by the secondary literature: the assumption, present in several of his methodological texts, that a theory designed for the analysis of oral communication (speech act theory) can be unreservedly used for interpreting text. In this article I will use some of Paul Ricoeur's phenomenological insights on the difference between textual and oral communication in order to advance a systematic critique of Skinner's project and to suggest new methodological possibilities for the history of political thought and related disciplines. This procedure will also allow me to organize some of the criticism raised against Skinner's Collingwoodean approach since its inception
Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Politics · Sociology · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |