Skinner, Wittgenstein and Historical Method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4883281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Havercroft (0000-0003-0995-8912, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 371-387 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2011.0031 |
| OpenAlex | W1991142936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
In a recent criticism of Quentin Skinner's historical method Peter Steinberger has drawn upon linguistic analytic philosophy to argue that intellectual history should focus on the reconstruction of logical propositions rather than the contextualization of author's statements. This essay will argue that Steinberger reproduces many of the same types of methodological problems that prompted Skinner's initial critique of intellectual history in the 1960s. I will draw upon the linguistic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to demonstrate that Steinberger's conception of intellectual history as the reconstruction of the logical content of statements fundamentally misunderstands what political philosophy is - and by extension the methods of historical interpretation
Conceptual history · Contextualization · Criticism · Epistemology · Intellectual history · Linguistic turn · Linguistics · Literature · Philosophy of history · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |