Part I: Two historiographical problems in search of solutions -- Introduction : the two problems -- Logic and method in the history of political thought -- Part II: The pastness of past political thinking -- The pastness of the historical past -- Oakeshott on the history of political thinking -- Pocock and Skinner on Oakeshott -- Part III: The varieties of past political thinking -- Hobbes's Leviathan : ideology and philosophy -- The logic of the history of political philosophy -- Conclusion : the use and abuse of history
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher
