By George Armstrong Kelly
Mr Kelly offers a wide-ranging yet cautious scholarly research of the assembly of 2 important issues within the French innovative interval: highbrow and ethical perceptions of historical past, and the styles of political platforms. the writer strains his critical preoccupations in a chain of associated experiences of Rousseau, Kant, Fichte and Hegel.
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Para. 82. , para. 23. Linguistic philosophy and The Foundations 25 particular time. 32 Thus the recovery of meaning requires that one discern the range of language games available to the author when he was writing. Only when this range of uses has been determined does the significance of the author’s choice of words become apparent. In this way, what an author means when he discusses a particular concept cannot be determined solely by what he says about it; one must also understand how the author is using the words he employs to discuss the concept, which can only be determined within the context of other possible usages of those words.
75 Skinner’s assertion is thus that his intention in his work is to provide his readers ‘with information relevant to the making of judgements about their current values . 77 The use of the term ‘ruminate’ reveals the significance of what Skinner is doing with his methodology, for it shows that he identifies in his practice of intellectual history an element critical towards current values which is similar to Nietzsche’s approach. In this way, it brings prominently into relief his agency vis-`a-vis his context.
37 38 J. G. A. Pocock part in the first debate, but hardly in the second. 4 For me, as for Skinner, the point of importance has been that the study of the contexts in which political speech acts have been performed can entail, and even become, the study of the diverse languages, ways of thinking and views of the world in which they have been conducted. It is a question whether ‘political thought’, ‘political theory’ and ‘political philosophy’ can be studied in ways which reduce to a single narrative the history in which they have interacted.