John Pocock's methodology in political thought; Contextual historiography and linguistic paradigm

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Department of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabatabaei Univ., Tehran, Iran

10.30465/cps.2022.32687.2572

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Historiography in political thought, in addition to looking at the historical and political context of the period of thought formation, also identifies and examines the dominant linguistic paradigm of that period. Along with Quentin Skinner and John Don, he is one of the founders of the Cambridge School of Methodology of Political Thought, which, despite Skinner's introduction in Iran, has neglected John Pocock's methodology. According to John Pacock's method of historiography, in order to study political thought, one must place the texts of political thought in their historical context, and on the other hand, the linguistic analysis of these texts as part of a paradigm or action of speech. Characteristic features of Historiography methodology are: historical context on the one hand and language, action, discourse and paradigm on the other. This method is opposed to text-based methodology. Following the publication of Pocock's work and his research on seventeenth-century British political thought, we are witnessing the discovery of a kind of Republican tradition that has challenged the tradition of liberalism in recent decades.

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