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The Pen is a Mighty Sword: Quentin Skinner's Analysis of Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

James H. Tully
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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1983 , pp. 489 - 509
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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1 I would like the reader to know at the outset that Skinner was my supervisor when I was a graduate student and he continues to be a friend.

2 His early work, ‘History and Ideology in the English Revolution’ (1965)Google Scholar, contains all these elements. (See pp. 507–9 for a list of Skinner's principal publications.)

3 ‘Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas’.

4 For his adaptation of speech–act theory, see the second through to the ninth article under Interpretation and Explanation in the bibliography.

5 For Habermas, Jurgen, see ‘What is Universal Pragmatics?’ in Communication and the Evolution of Society, tr. McCarthy, Thomas (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979).Google Scholar

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32 The exception is John Dunn, who alone saw clearly the challenge Skinner had launched at modern political theory. Dunn, John, ‘The Cage of Politics’, The Listener, 15 03 1979.Google Scholar

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39 In Machiavelli and Liberty, Skinner pits the old republican humanist ideology against recent manipulations of the juridical ideology, including John Rawls's A Theory of Justice.

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