Bibliograph

A history of modern political thought, the question of interpretation, Gary Browning

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Label

A history of modern political thought, the question of interpretation, Gary Browning

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A history of modern political thought

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

957616532

Responsibility statement

Gary Browning

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

the question of interpretation

Summary

How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer.--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

specialized

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