Tag: contextualism
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What Does an Intellectual Historian Actually Study? Methodology, Context, and Intentionality
What intellectual historians study, how contextualism works, and why texts are best understood as actions within historical debates.
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Writing Intellectual History: Context, Argument and the Problem of Myth
How intellectual historians reconstruct arguments in context, resist myths of coherence and explain why a revised interpretation of the past matters.
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Skinner and Foucault: Genealogy and Historical Method
Compare Quentin Skinner and Michel Foucault on genealogy, the modern state and power, and explore their different approaches to historical interpretation.
