Intentions and Conventions
A Critique of Quentin Skinner's Method for the Study of the History of Ideas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6344117 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lotte Mulligan (La Trobe University), Judith Richards (La Trobe University), John K Graham (La Trobe University), John Graham (0000-0002-8786-6610, La Trobe University) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 84-98 |
| Publication date | 1979-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9248.1979.tb01189.x |
| OpenAlex | W2109421901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 15 |
This paper plays critic to Quentin Skinner's much tougher role as methodological innovator in the practice of the history of ideas. It argues that the continuing centrality of intentions in Skinner's proposals as illustrated in his historical examples results in descriptions which are too often unproven or unproveable or unenlightening or wrong. Serious doubts are raised about the theoretical propriety of Skinner's doctrine of intentions as a key to the proper understanding of historical texts, and the legitimacy of the explanatory power Skinner attributes to his imputed intentions is disputed
Centrality · Doctrine · Epistemology · Explanatory power · Innovator · Legitimacy · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Theology · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy
La sociologia di Luciano Cavalli
Quentin Skinner e a história das ideias políticas
A Comment on Mulligan, Richards and Graham
Texto, contexto y marco
New Histories of Political Thought for Old
Obligations, Utopias, and their Historical Context
The Predicament Of Ideas In Culture
Skinner on 'the Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Theory in Practice
Analysis and History of Political Thought
Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas
I. History and Ideology in the English Revolution
II. Thomas Hobbes and the Nature of the Early Royal Society
Hobbes's ‘Leviathan’
III. The Ideological Context of Hobbes's Political Thought
Hobbes on Sovereignty
III. Some Problems in the Analysis of Political Thought and Action
I. Quentin Skinner's Hobbes
II. Quentin Skinner's Method
Conventions and the Understanding of Speech Acts
More's Utopia
Historicity, Meaning, and Revisionism in the Study of Political Thought
Motives, Intentions and the Interpretation of Texts
On Performing and Explaining Linguistic Actions
Thomas Hobbes and His Disciples in France and England
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2023 (44) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |