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"Political Studies Association" Survey of Journals "H.P.T." Features Prominently in Academic Journal Peer ReviewHistory of Political Thought 11 (4 Supplement): 769. 1990.
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Announcements - International Kelly Prize in German Political ThoughtHistory of Political Thought 11 (4 Supplement): 795. 1990.
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4Hobbes, Thomas-atheist or enthusiast-his place in a restoration debateHistory of Political Thought 11 (4): 737-749. 1990.
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8Theory in History: Problems of Context and NarrativeIn John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig & Anne Phillips (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, Oxford University Press. 2006.This article examines the context and narrative problems associated with the study of the history of political theory. It suggests that in order to study the relations between political theory and history, it is necessary to study these terms and reduce them to manageable forms. It explains that the histories of political thought/theory were canonically constructed and they arranged modes of discourse in an order which it had come to be agreed formed the history being presented.
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22Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography, written by Émile Perreau-SaussineJournal of Moral Philosophy 21 (1-2): 210-213. 2024.
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9Stelio Zeppi, "Studi su Machiavelli pensatore" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 18 (3): 349. 1980.
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92Prophet and inquisitor: Or, a church built upon bayonets cannot stand: A comment on Mansfield's "Strauss's Machiavelli"Political Theory 3 (4): 385-401. 1975.
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13Alan MacFarlane, "the origins of English individualism" (review)History and Theory 19 (1): 100. 1980.
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2Problems with Generalization in Education Research, Their Consequences, and Their ImplicationsPhilosophy of Education 69 464-472. 2013.
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15The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between by Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser, edsCommon Knowledge 25 (1-3): 421-421. 2019.
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46A response to Samuel James’s ‘J. G. A. Pocock and the Idea of the “Cambridge School” in the History of Political Thought’ (review)History of European Ideas 45 (1): 99-103. 2019.
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35Two essays: I. The desert and the city: reading the history of civilisation in Ibn Khaldun after Edward Gibbon. II. Rational enthusiasm and angelicality: the concept of prophecy in Ibn Khaldun and Edward Gibbon (review)History of European Ideas 45 (4): 469-508. 2019.ABSTRACTThe Desert and the City and Rational Enthusiasm are experiments in comparative historiography, based on no more evidence than is necessary in order to carry out the comparison, since to pursue either text into its historical context would be to pursue its intended meaning and no longer to compare it with the other. The essays aim to imagine an eighteenth-century judgement on a fourteenth-century text, intended not to support such a judgement, but to imagine what Gibbon would have said of…Read more
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29Afterword: The Machiavellian Moment: A Very Short Retrospect and Re-IntroductionHistory of European Ideas 43 (2): 215-221. 2017.
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25From The Ancient Constitution to Barbarism and Religion; The Machiavellian Moment, the history of political thought and the history of historiographyHistory of European Ideas 43 (2): 129-146. 2017.
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12The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American FoundingCommon Knowledge 22 (3): 503-505. 2016.
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27Chinese historicityCommon Knowledge 22 (2): 327-330. 2016.This piece is an essay review of Wang Hui's book China from Empire to Nation-State, which is a translation of the introduction to Wang's four-volume Rise of Modern Chinese Thought. According to the reviewer, Wang studies less the modern history of China than its historicity and does so in the context of China's transition from being an empire, inhabiting a cosmos that is the product of its own self-reflection, to being one among a number of nation-states, inhabiting a number of histories of thei…Read more
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24A method, a model and Machiavelli: history colloquium at Princeton, 19 November 1968History of European Ideas 43 (5): 389-400. 2017.ABSTRACTJohn Pocock gave “A method, a model and Machiavelli” as a talk at Princeton University in 1968. What happened to the text afterwards is uncertain, but it remained in the papers of Professor Donald Weinstein until his death in 2015, when it was identified by his widow Beverly Parker as being of importance. The text is especially revealing about Pocock’s attitudes to the history of ideas/intellectual history in the late 1960s and more especially the state of the grand project that became T…Read more
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26Gibbon’s second trilogy: an introductory surveyHistory of European Ideas 43 (7): 701-731. 2017.ABSTRACTThis essay is speculative in character. It is the work of a historian who has completed a study, written on certain principles, of the first three volumes of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and does not intend to advance to a similar study of the second three. He does, however, believe that such a study would differ profoundly from that he has constructed of the first trilogy and wishes to offer hypotheses as to why this should be so. All hypotheses invite falsification, an…Read more
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141Historiography and enlightenment: A view of their history: J. G. A. PocockModern Intellectual History 5 (1): 83-96. 2008.This essay is written on the following premises and argues for them. “Enlightenment” is a word or signifier, and not a single or unifiable phenomenon which it consistently signifies. There is no single or unifiable phenomenon describable as “the Enlightenment,” but it is the definite article rather than the noun which is to be avoided. In studying the intellectual history of the late seventeenth century and the eighteenth, we encounter a variety of statements made, and assumptions proposed, to w…Read more
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12Barbarism and Religion 2 Volume Paperback SetCambridge University Press. 1999.Barbarism and Religion - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of an acclaimed sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas, challenging the idea of 'The Enlightenment' and positing instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. Professor Pocock argues that the …Read more
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Book Review (review)History of Political Thought 28 (4): 747-751. 2007.The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, ed. Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler , xvi + 919 pp., £110.00, ISBN0 521 314227
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