Visions of Politics (Volume 1)
内容简介
The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work. Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, and elucidates the methodology which finds its expression in his two successive volumes. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition; these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought. Professor Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at
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作者简介
Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College.
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目录
General preface
Full contents: volumes 1–3
Acknowledgements
Conventions
Volume 1: Regarding Method:
1. Introduction: seeing things their way
2. The practice of history and the cult of the fact
3. Interpretation, rationality and truth
4. Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas
5. Motives, intentions and interpretation
6. Interpretation and the understanding of speech acts
7. 'Social meaning' and the explanation of social action
8. Moral principles and social change
9. The idea of a cultural lexicon
10. Retrospect: studying rhetoric and conceptual change
Bibliography
Index.
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读书文摘
在所有此类事例中，只要某一著作家似乎是在暗示某种“学说”，我们都会遇到此种循环推理问题。如果某位著作家的确意欲阐述一种后世赋予他的学说，那为什么他自己如此明显地没有明确这样做，从而使得历史学家只能通过臆测或根据隐含的线索重建他们的所谓意图？
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