The canon of the history of political thought: Its critique and a proposed alternative

History and Theory

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-166

  Stuurman, Siep ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33749333650     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0018-2656.00120     Document Type: Review

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3. the book was dedicated, "by special permission, to His Majesty the King of the Belgians." On Blakey's career, see Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals, ed. Joseph O. Baylen and Norbert J. Gossman (Sussex, n.d.), II, 71-72
4. In France, Jules Barni, also a Liberal, published a comparable, though less encyclopedic work in 1865: Histoire des idées morales et politiques en France au dix-huitième siècl (Paris, 1865).
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6. See, for example, George H. Sabine, A History of Political Theory (London, 1937; reissued many times, from 1973 onwards in a slightly revised edition by Thomas L. Thorson)
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24. Friedrich Engels's study of the Peasant War (Der Deutsche Bauernkrieg, 1850) draws heavily on Zimmermann
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32. Alice Browne, The Eighteenth-Century Feminist Mind (Brighton, Eng., 1987)
33. Constance Jordan, Renaissance Feminism (Ithaca and London, 1990)
34. Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History: From the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Tjitske Akkerman and Siep Stuurman (London and New York, 1998)
35. Hampsher-Monk (History of Modern Political Thought, 381 -382)
36. See Gordon J. Schochet, Patriarchalism in Political Thought (New York, 1975)
37. Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought (Princeton, 1979)
38. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought (Princeton, 1981)
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48. See, for example, Margaret T. Hodgen, Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Philadelphia, 1964)
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51. Annie Jacob, Le Travail reflet des cultures: du sauvage indolent au travailleur productif (Paris, 1994)
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56. M. E. Yapp, "Europe in the Turkish Mirror," Past and Present 137 (November 1992), 134-155
57. Hisayasu Nakagawa, Des Lumières et du comparatisme: un regard Japonais sur le XVIIle siècle (Paris, 1992)
58. Modern Japanese Thought, ed. Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (Cambridge, Eng., 1998)
59. Tokugawa Political Writings, ed. Tetsuo Najita (Cambridge, Eng., 1998)
60. On this, see, for example, Lewis Hanke, Aristotle and the American Indians: A Study in Race Prejudice in the Modern World (London, 1959)
61. Bartolomé de las Casas in History, ed. Juan Friede and Benjamin Keen (DeKalb, Ill., 1971)
62. Anthony Pagden, "Dispossessing the Barbarian: The Language of Spanish Thomism and the Debate over the Property Rights of the American Indians," in The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe, ed. Anthony Pagden (Cambridge, Eng., 1987), 79-98
63. Javed Majeed, Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism (Oxford, 1992)
64. Eileen P. Sullivan, "Liberalism and Imperialism: J. S. Mill's Defense of the British Empire," Journal of the Histotry of Ideas 44 (1983), 599-617
65. See C. B. MacPherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford, 1972)
66. Walter Euchner, Naturrecht und Politik bei John Locke (Frankfurt a. M.,1969). MacPherson's interpretation has occasioned a large number of polemic rejoinders and rival interpretations; the upshot is that the nature of Locke's autonomous, rational individual is now one of the most contested issues in thehistory of political thought
67. See Uday S. Mehta, "Liberal Strategies of Exclusion," Politics and Society 18 (1990), 427-454
68. Bhikhu Parekh, "Superior People: The Narrowness of Liberalism from Mill to Rawls," Times Literary Supplement (25 February 1994), 11-13.
69. See, for example, Siep Stuurman, "Social Cartesianism: François Poulain de la Barre and the Origins of the Enlightenment," Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (1997), 617-640.
70. Melissa Butler, "Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke and the Attack on Patriarchy," American Political Science Review 72 (1978), 135-150.
71. Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Législation orientale (Amsterdam, 1778), 178
72. Quentin Skinner, "Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas," History and Theory 8 (1969), 3-53
73. reprinted, along with other articles, and a number of useful comments and critiques, in Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics, ed. James Tully (Cambridge and Oxford, 1988)
74. J. G. A. Pocock, "The History of Political Thought: A Methodological Inquiry," in Philosophy, Politics and Society, 2d series, ed. Peter Laslett and W. G. Runciman (Oxford, 1962), 183-202
75. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce, and History (Cambridge, Eng. , 1985)
76. a useful review article is Iain Hampsher-Monk, "Political Languages in Time-The Work of J. G. A. Pocock," British Journal of Political Science 14 (1984), 89-116
77. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce, and History, 14.
78. See, for example, Conal Condren, The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts: An Essay on Political Theory, Its Inheritance, and the History of Ideas (Princeton, 1985)
79. Terence Ball, Reappraising Political Theory (Oxford, 1995).
80. See, for example, Donald Winch, Adam Smith's Politics: An Essay in Historiographic Revision (Cambridge, Eng., 1978)
81. Wealth and Virtue, The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, ed. Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff (Cambridge, Eng., 1983)
82. Stephen Buckle, Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume (Oxford, 1991)
83. Catherine Larrère, L'lnvention de I'économie au XVIIle siècle (Paris, 1992)
84. Jean-Claude Perrot, Une histoire intellectuelle de l'économie politique (Paris, 1992)
85. See, for example, Tjitske Akkerman, Women's Vices, Public Benefits: Women and Commerce in the French Enlightenment (Amsterdam, 1992)
86. Virginia Sapiro, A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft (Chicago and London, 1992)
87. Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Historisches Lexicon zur politisch-sozialen Sprache in Deutschland, ed. Otto Brunner, Werner Conze, and Reinhardt Koselleck, 8 vols. (Stuttgart, 1972-1993)
88. Handhuch politisch-sozialer Grundbegriffe in Frankreich 1680-1820, ed. Rolf Reichardt and Eberhard Schmitt, 18 vols, to date (Munich, 1985-)
89. See Melvin Richter, "Reconstructing the History of Political Languages: Pocock, Skinner, and the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe," History and Theory 29 (1990), 38-70
90. see also Political Innovation and Conceptual Change, ed.
91. Terence Ball and Russell L. Hanson (Cambridge, Eng., 1989)
92. The Meaning of Historical Terms and Concepts: New Studies on Begriffsgeschichte, ed. Hartmut Lehman and Melvin Richter (Washington, D. C., 1996)
93. MacPherson, Possessive Individualism: John Dunn, The Political Thought of John Locke (Cambridge, Eng., 1969)
94. James Tully, A Discourse on Property: John Locke and His Adversaries (Cambridge, Eng., 1980)
95. Neal Wood, John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1984)
96. Richard Ashcraft, Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government (Princeton, 1986)
97. For some contrasting appraisals of the new trends in the history of ideas, see, for example, John E. Toews, "Intellectual History after the Linguistic Turn: The Autonomy of Meaning and the Irreducibility of Experience," American Historical Review 92 (1987), 879-907
98. Donald R. Kelley, "What is Happening to the History of Ideas?" Journal of the History of Ideas 51 (1990), 3-25
99. Gordon J. Schochet, "Why Should History Matter? Political Theory and the History of Discourse," in The Varieties of British Political Thought, ed. J. G. A. Pocock, Gordon J. Schochet, and Lois G. Schwoerer (Cambridge, Eng., 1994), 321-357
100. Mark Bevir, "Mind and Method in the History of Ideas," History and Theory 36 (1997), 167-189.
101. See, for example, Sarah Hanley, "Social Sites of Political Practice in France: Lawsuits, Civil Rights, and the Separation of Powers in Domestic and State Government, 1500-1800," American Historical Review 102 (1997), 27-52.
102. See Louis Sala-Molins, Le Code noir ou le calvaire de Canaan (Paris, 1987).
103. See Sue Peabody, "'There Are No Slaves in France': The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime (New York and Oxford, 1996).
104. See Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 2
105. The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914 (Cambridge, Eng., 1993), 370-375
106. The locus classicus is The Invention of Tradition, ed. Eric Hobsbawn and Terence Ranger (Cambridge, Eng., 1983), but Ernest Gellner made the point far earlier
107. Renan's incisive observations on the role of forgetting and "getting one's history wrong" in the making of nations are found in "Qu'est-ce qu'une nation," Oeuvres complètes de Ernest Renan, ed. H. Psichari (Paris, 1947), I, 887- 906
108. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections of the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London, 1983), 15.
109. John of Salisbury, Metalogicon Bk. III, #4
110. see also Raymond Klibansky, "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants," Isis 26 (1936), 147-149.
111. See Joan DeJean, Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle (Chicago and London, 1997).
112. I draw here on J. G. A. Pocock, "The Origins of the Study of the Past: A Comparative Approach," Comparative Studies in Society and History 4 (1961-1962), 209-246