Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History
By J. G. A. Pocock.
Description
In his first essay, "Languages and Their Implications," J. G. A. Pocock announces the emergence of the history of political thought as a discipline apart from political philosophy. Traditionally, "history" of political thought has meant a chronological ordering of intellectual systems without attention to political languages; but it is through the study of those languages and of their changes, Pocock claims, that political thought will at last be studied historically.Pocock argues that the solution has already been approached by, first, the linguistic philosophers, with ...
ISBN(s)
0226671399, 9780226671390
