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

By: Martyn P. Thompson

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

By: Martyn P. Thompson

This book is a critique of Cambridge School Historical Contextualism as the currently dominant mode of history of political thought, drawing upon Michael Oakeshott’s analysis of the logic of historical enquiry. While acknowledging that the early Cambridge School work represented a considerable advance towards genuinely historical histories of political thought, this work identifies two major historiographical problems that have become increasingly acute. The first is general: an insufficiently rigorous understanding of the key concept of "pastness" necessarily presupposed in historical enquiry of all kinds. The second is specific to histories of political thought: a failure to do justice to the varieties of past political thinking, especially differences between ideology and philosophy. In addressing these problems, the author offers a comprehensive account of the history of political thought that establishes the parameters not just of histories of ideological thinking but also of the much disputed character of histories of political philosophy. Since rethinking history of political thought in Oakeshottian terms requires resisting current pressures to turn history into the servant of currently felt needs, the book offers a sustained defence of the cultural value of modernist historical enquiry against its opponents. An important work for political theorists, historians of political thought and those researching intellectual history, the philosophy of history and proposed new directions in contemporary historical studies.

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Routledge

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1315443740

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Ideas of Contract in English Political Thought in the Age of John Locke

By: Martyn P. Thompson

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Ideas of Contract in English Political Thought in the Age of John Locke

By: Martyn P. Thompson

Originally published in 1987. This book analyses what Englishmen understood by the term contract in political discussions during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It provides evidence for reconsidering conventional accounts of the relationships between political ideas, groups and practices of the period. But also suggests cause for examining the general history of modern European contract theory. It considers contract as a term appearing in a spectrum of works from philosophical treatise to sermons and polemical pamphlets. Looking at the various vocabularies relating to contractualist ideas, the author suggests that standard histories of social contract theory and particular histories of English political thought during this unstable period have misrepresented the meaning of the term contract as a key term in political argument. He shows that there were in fact three different categories of contract theory but allows that the various kinds of contractualism did share certain broad features. This study of a crucial age in the history of appeals to contract in political argument will be of interest to political philosophers and historians.

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1000448894

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

By: Martyn P. Thompson

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1315443759

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Journal and Letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn

By: Henry Martyn,S. Wilberforce

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By: Henry Martyn,S. Wilberforce

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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053080851X

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

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

Ideas of Contract in English Political Thought in the Age of John Locke

Ideas of Contract in English Political Thought in the Age of John Locke

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

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

Journal and Letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn

Journal and Letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn

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