Politics, Language and Time Pocock J. G. A.
In his first essay, Languages and Their Implications, J. G. A. Pocock announces the emergence of the history of political thought as a discipline apart from political philosophy. Traditionally,…
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In his first essay, Languages and Their Implications, J. G. A. Pocock announces the emergence of the history of political thought as a discipline apart from political philosophy. Traditionally, history of political thought has meant a chronological ordering of intellectual systems without attention to political languages; but it is through the study of those languages and of their changes, Pocock claims, that political thought will at last be studied historically.Pocock argues that the solution has already been approached by, first, the linguistic philosophers, with their emphasis on the importance of language study to understanding human thought, and, second, by Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, with its notion of controlling intellectual paradigms. Those paradigms within and through which the scientist organizes his intellectual enterprise may well be
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