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Visions of Politics
TL;DR: Hobbes and the studia humanitatis as mentioned in this paper were the first to propose the notion of negative liberty and its application in the English civil war and the French civil war.
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III. Some Problems in the Analysis of Political Thought and Action
TL;DR: Schochet and Wiener as discussed by the authors pointed out that it is possible to respond to their remarks in one of two ways: one would be to pursue the implications of Wiener's article and try to provide some more historical information about the context of Hobbes's political thought; the other alternative is to say something more about my general approach to the study of political theory.
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The New History of Sociology
TL;DR: The influence of what Merton called the new history of science has been felt in the historiography of anthropology (e.g. Thomas Kuhn) and, more recently, in sociology as mentioned in this paper.
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Der 'intentionale fehlschluß' — ein dogma?
TL;DR: The authors examine the controversy surrounding the intentionalist conception of textual interpretation and conclude that it represents a perfectly normal conception of meaning and interpretation, of a kind by no means inferior to other approaches adopted by the various disciplines concerned with interpreting texts, and reconstruct the objections raised in the literature against the intentional conception and discuss them as criticism of a conception hold to be inadequate with respect to the problem of literary interpretation.
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Durkheim, language, and history: A pragmatist perspective
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the historicist position of Jones, with its foundations in the work of Quentin Skinner and other historians of political theory, and then is criticized from the standpoint of the neo-Deweyan pragmatism of Richard Rorty.