Recent Developments in the Thought of Quentin Skinner and the Ambitions of Contextualism

Journal of the Philosophy of History 3 (3):246-265 (2009)
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In this article, I chart some recent developments in the linguistic contextualist philosophy of history defended by Quentin Skinner. I attempt to identify several shifts in the way in which Skinner's position has been presented and justified, focusing particularly on his embrace of anti-foundationalism, his focus on rhetoric rather than speech-acts and his concern to recast contextualism as compatible with other interpretive approaches. In the final section, I reject the notion - suggested by Skinner and others - that a contextualist philosophy of history might constitute a distinct form of political theorizing in itself

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Quentin Skinner's revised historical contextualism: a critique.Robert Lamb - 2009 - History of the Human Sciences 22 (3):51-73.

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Political Philosophy As a Critical Activity.James Tully - 2002 - Political Theory 30 (4):533-555.
The Contextual Approach.Mark Bevir - 2011 - In George Klosko (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy. Oxford University Press. pp. 11.

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