The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles...
The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work. Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, and elucidates the methodology which finds its expression in his two successive volumes. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition; these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought. Professor Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474
作者简介
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Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College.
目录
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General preface
Full contents: volumes 1–3
Acknowledgements
Conventions
Volume 1: Regarding Method:
1. Introduction: seeing things their way
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General preface
Full contents: volumes 1–3
Acknowledgements
Conventions
Volume 1: Regarding Method:
1. Introduction: seeing things their way
2. The practice of history and the cult of the fact
3. Interpretation, rationality and truth
4. Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas
5. Motives, intentions and interpretation
6. Interpretation and the understanding of speech acts
7. 'Social meaning' and the explanation of social action
8. Moral principles and social change
9. The idea of a cultural lexicon
10. Retrospect: studying rhetoric and conceptual change
Bibliography
Index.
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One final consideration worth highlighting relates to the activity of thinking itself. We need to reckon with the fact that thinking is an effortful activity, not simply a manipulation of a kaleidoscope of mental images. The attempt to think out problem, as a matter of common introspection and observation, does not seem to take the form of, or be reducible to, a patterned or even a uniformly purposive activity. Rather we engage in an often intolerable wrestle with words and meanings, we spill over the limits of our intelligence and become confused, and we often find that our attempts to synthesise our views reveal conceptual disorders at least as much as coherent doctrines. But it is precisely this consideration which is ignored whenever an interpreter insists on collecting the regrettably... (查看原文)
It was widely agreed that the question of whether the so-called classic texts remain worthy of study depends on the extent to which they can be shown to address these perennial issues in a ‘relevant' way . I protested that this approach is insensitive to the possibility that earlier thinkers may have been interested in a range of questions very different from our own. More specifically , I objected that, by appropriating the past in this fashion, we leave ourselves no space to consider what earlier philosophers may have been doing in writing as they wrote. (查看原文)
写法略嫌重复，四和八精彩。基于contextualization、speech act以及更广义的语言学/修辞学讨论的方法论一种。斯金纳健笔如椽，条分缕析的功夫、尤其是辨析他人多有所混淆的地方非常厉害。Intro结尾太有力，简直是对语言、甚至对书写最深情的告白。"The plea is to recognise that the pen is a mighty sword...We may be ...写法略嫌重复，四和八精彩。基于contextualization、speech act以及更广义的语言学/修辞学讨论的方法论一种。斯金纳健笔如椽，条分缕析的功夫、尤其是辨析他人多有所混淆的地方非常厉害。Intro结尾太有力，简直是对语言、甚至对书写最深情的告白。"The plea is to recognise that the pen is a mighty sword...We may be freer than we sometimes suppose."至于某个朝令夕改的国度，大约充斥着“paradiastolic redescription”吧。(展开)
Chap. 1 & 4: Austin & Searle; No one is above the battle, because the battle is all there is; Anachronism, 不能否认我这句话没有在说这个意思; desire to resolve antimonies; mythology of prolepsis; (i) that B is known to have studied A’s works; (ii) t...
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1 有用 榆杉子 2023-10-19 22:40:53 英国
思想史和知识史领域的圣经。// 论文写了十几天，昨日完工的同时也见到了斯金纳本人，心满意足喽。其实第九章Idea of Cultural Lexicon才是最好的，斯金纳本人认证～
0 有用 忘憂 2013-05-08 15:27:48
Quentin Skinner, “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas”, History and Theory；57-89 （二十餘歲發表）
0 有用 philohistoria 2011-07-12 19:04:16
启发颇大。
0 有用 Donald 2014-07-22 19:53:57
The guy has such a powerful mind!
0 有用 野次馬 2019-01-11 16:35:50
写法略嫌重复，四和八精彩。基于contextualization、speech act以及更广义的语言学/修辞学讨论的方法论一种。斯金纳健笔如椽，条分缕析的功夫、尤其是辨析他人多有所混淆的地方非常厉害。Intro结尾太有力，简直是对语言、甚至对书写最深情的告白。"The plea is to recognise that the pen is a mighty sword...We may be ... 写法略嫌重复，四和八精彩。基于contextualization、speech act以及更广义的语言学/修辞学讨论的方法论一种。斯金纳健笔如椽，条分缕析的功夫、尤其是辨析他人多有所混淆的地方非常厉害。Intro结尾太有力，简直是对语言、甚至对书写最深情的告白。"The plea is to recognise that the pen is a mighty sword...We may be freer than we sometimes suppose."至于某个朝令夕改的国度，大约充斥着“paradiastolic redescription”吧。 (展开)
0 有用 Vinland 2023-11-16 01:29:28 北京
写论文需要，按图索骥重点看了七十年代的几篇，但其实到这本书里观点已有细微的变化。不敢说读懂，其间的学术背景很复杂。
0 有用 坊っちゃん 2023-10-21 10:02:46 四川
感觉欧陆自由主义和后现代都是在回应自身古典传统。斯金纳在本质形式问题上很有回归柏拉图的倾向。 虽然斯金纳和伯林不完全对付，但他们都有一个顶级优点就是能把复杂的问题说得清晰明了啊……读起来像读中文一样流畅。反倒是华文世界去海外用英文做研究的学者，写出来的英文就连母语者都得纠结好久哈哈哈。
1 有用 榆杉子 2023-10-19 22:40:53 英国
思想史和知识史领域的圣经。// 论文写了十几天，昨日完工的同时也见到了斯金纳本人，心满意足喽。其实第九章Idea of Cultural Lexicon才是最好的，斯金纳本人认证～
0 有用 Kobeni 2022-12-22 22:58:09 广东
好
0 有用 召元甫 2022-07-11 22:55:13
这本书文风太过晦涩（相比之下斯金纳的学生Eric Nelson的书就非常清晰），一定程度上阻碍了斯金纳的思想被学人接受。（据说有人翻译了这本书7年还没翻译完，估计放弃了。）参考了其中一章，发现斯金纳其实懂很多哲学，他的想法跟罗蒂比较接近。