Political thought and history essays on theory and method

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The history of political thought : a methodological inquiry -- Working on ideas in time -- Verbalizing a political act : towards a politics of speech -- Political ideas as historical events : political philosophers as historical actors -- The reconstruction of discourse : towards the historiography of political thought -- The concept of a language and the métier d'historien : some considerations on practice -- Texts as events : reflections on the history of political thought -- Quentin Skinner : the history of politics and the politics of history -- The origins of study of the past : a comparative approach -- Time, institutions and action : an essay on traditions and their understanding -- The historian as political actor in polity, society and academy -- The politics of history : the subaltern and the subversive -- The politics of historiography.