5. The ‘Cambridge School’

History Of ◽

The 1960S ◽

‘The ‘Cambridge School’’ talks about the Cambridge School of the History of Political Thought, which rejected Marxist approaches for propagating bad history. Cambridge School’s story is very complex and is the product of John Pocock, Quentin Skinner, and John Dunn. The three scholars formulated their ideas about how the history of political thought should become a field in the 1960s. It is worth considering the history of political thought in Britain and Cambridge as a way to understand why Pocock, Skinner, and Dunn wanted to do things differently. The story of the three scholars is tied to the history of liberalism or the story of Britain as a liberal state.

8. Globality, morality, and the future

10.1093/actrade/9780198853725.003.0008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107-122

Author(s):

Richard Whatmore

Keyword(s):

Political Thought ◽

Leo Strauss ◽

Contemporary Society ◽

The Future ◽

History Of ◽

Proletarian Revolution ◽

The 1960S ◽

Political Actions ◽

‘Globality, morality, and the future’ recounts the 1960s research in the history of political thought, which was inspired by the writings of Leo Strauss, Michel Foucault, Reinhart Koselleck, and the Cambridge School authors. The reconstruction of the meaning of texts can be seen through the scholars’ ideological contexts and perspectives. Despite the rejection of Marxist categories for interrogating history and proletarian revolution, the world created by capitalism continues to be attacked for its endemic war and fanatical politics. Aspects of the history of political thought trained scholars to see the problems of contemporary society. The history of political thought allowed political actions to be charted and evaluated for success.

Ein Modell Politischer Diskursanalyse

European Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1017/s0003975602001091 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 241-269 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

RAIMUND OTTOW

Keyword(s):

Intellectual History ◽

Political Thought ◽

General Model ◽

Discourse Theory ◽

History Of ◽

Alternative Approaches ◽

Conceptual Problems ◽

The author discusses the discourse-theory of the so-called ‘Cambridge School’ (Quentin Skinner, John Pocock), which is favorably compared to alternative approaches in the field of the intellectual history of political thought. Some conceptual problems of this kind of discoursetheory are discussed and some remedies proposed, resulting in the formulation of a general model, which could be applied to contemporary debates, exemplified by a short analysis of the discursive situation of modern liberalism.

Michael Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on the History of Political Thought

10.4324/9781315443768 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Martyn P. Thompson

Keyword(s):

Political Thought ◽

History Of ◽

Michael Oakeshott ◽

J.G.A. Pocock and the idea of the ‘Cambridge School’ in the history of political thought

History of European Ideas ◽

10.1080/01916599.2018.1498011 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 83-98 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Samuel James

Keyword(s):

Political Thought ◽

History Of ◽

Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198717133.013.19 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Don Herzog

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Political Theory ◽

Political Thought ◽

Reference Book ◽

Late Medieval ◽

History Of ◽

Multiple Languages ◽

In The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Quentin Skinner has three aims: creating a sort of reference book for hundreds of primary texts in multiple languages, illuminating a more general historical theme using late medieval and early modern political texts, and giving us a history of political thought with a genuinely historical character. Skinner allows us to see political theorists creatively wrestling with difficult political problems of their day, and attempting to solve them through their writing. Skinner’s critics, however, cannot shake the sense that placing these texts in historical contexts robs them of some of their profundity and value as works of political theory. This chapter examines some of Skinner’s treatments of particular authors, notes some difficulties with the book’s methods, and situates the debate around Foundations within the emergence of a self-conscious Cambridge School.

A response to Samuel James’s ‘J. G. A. Pocock and the Idea of the “Cambridge School” in the History of Political Thought’

History of European Ideas ◽

10.1080/01916599.2018.1535591 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 99-103 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

J. G. A. Pocock

Keyword(s):

Political Thought ◽

History Of ◽

The Cambridge School and Kripke: Bug Detecting with the History of Political Thought

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670519000512 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 81 (4) ◽

pp. 621-642 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

William Bosworth ◽

Keith Dowding

Keyword(s):

Political Theory ◽

Political Thought ◽

Philosophy Of Language ◽

Step Method ◽

New Developments ◽

History Of ◽

Political Opinions ◽

Theories Of Meaning ◽

AbstractWe propose a two-step method for studying the history of political thought roughly in line with the contextualism of the Cambridge School. It reframes the early Cambridge School as a bug-detecting program for the outdated conceptual baggage we unknowingly accommodate with our political terminology. Such accommodation often entails propositions that are inconsistent with even our most cherished political opinions. These bugs can cause political arguments to crash. This reframing takes seriously the importance of theories of meaning in the formative methodological arguments of the Cambridge School and updates the argument in light of new developments. We argue the new orthodoxy of Saul Kripke's causal theory of meaning in the philosophy of language better demonstrates the importance of contextual analysis to modern political theory.

The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction

10.1093/actrade/9780198853725.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Whatmore

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Political Science ◽

Political Thought ◽

Leo Strauss ◽

Short Introduction ◽

The Core ◽

The Past ◽

History Of ◽

‘A History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction’ explores the core concerns and questions in the history of political thought, considering the field as a branch of political philosophy and political science. The approaches of core theorists, such as Reinhart Koselleck, Leo Strauss, Michel Foucault, and the so-called Cambridge School of Quentin Skinner and John Pocock are important to this topic. There is ongoing relevance for current politics which can be seen by assessing the current relationship between political history, theory, and action. There are some areas of political thinking that tend to draw on history because of the comparisons and contrasts that the past can offer to contemporary dilemmas.