Критически рассматривая методологию интеллектуальной истории, выражаемую в двух основных подходах – текстуализме и контекстуализме Скиннер предлагает иную возможную стратегию, именуемую лингвистическим контекстуализмом. Подобный подход подразумевает, что тексты могут быть правильно поняты истолкованы только при изучении намерений автора посредством анализа лингвистического контекста. Critically...

playful and profound in a way unique to him, entitled ‘‘Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?’’ According to the possible emphases, this sentence could express at least four different questions (‘‘Is,’’ present/past; ‘‘an,’’ singular/plural; ‘‘Indian,’’ local/general; ‘‘thinking,’’ familiar/alien), to which Ramanujan supplies at least eight equally reasonable answers. In the end, he seems to have...

The first part of this essay examines the peculiar role European intellectual history played in coming to terms with the twentieth century as an ‘Age of Extremes’ and the different weight it was given for that task at different times and in different national contexts up to the 1970s. The second part looks at the contemporary history of politically focused intellectual history – and the possibl...