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1. The Nature of Political Thought 2. Ancient Political Thought 3. Greek Political Thought 4. Roman Political Thought 5. Beginnings of Medieval Political Thought 6. The Conflict Between Church and State 7. The Close of the Middle Ages 8. Political Theory of the Reformation 9. Political Thought in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century 10. Bodin and Grotius 11. The Puritan Revolution in England 12. Hobbes and Locke 13. Continental Political Thought in the Seventeenth Century 14. Continental Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century 15. Montesquieu and Rousseau 16. Economic Development and Political Thought 17. Later Eighteenth Century Moralists and Jurists 18. Political Theories of the American and French Revolutions 19. Idealist-Ethical Political Thought 20. Reactionary Political Thought After the Revolutions 21. The English Utilitarians 22. Political Theory of Constitutional Democracy 23. Rise of the Socialist Political Thought 24. The Historical School of Political Thought 25. The State as an Organism 26. The Theory of the Federal State 27. Theories of Nationalism, Imperialism, and Internationalism 28. Psychological Influence on Political Thought 29. Pluralistic Theories of Sovereignty 30. Recent Proletarian Political Thought 31. General Tendencies in Political Thought; Index

Criticisms of Quentin Skinner's approach to the study of the history of political thought have generally failed to directly address the philosophical presuppositions on which Skinner himself relies. Those presuppositions involve, primarily, theories of language associated most closely with Austin, Searle, and Grice. An investigation of the uses that Skinner makes of philosophical pragmatics raises serious doubts about a number of his central claims. Moreover, those philosophical resources actually point toward a decidedly non-Skinnerian approach that focuses not primarily on discovering or reconstructing historical circumstances, but on uncovering and explicating structures of argumentation.

Oakeshott's memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings. Based on manuscripts in the LSE archive for 1966-67, the last year of Oakeshott's tenure as Professor of Political Science, these thirty lectures deal with Greek, Roman, mediaeval, and modern European political thought in a uniquely accessible manner. Scholars familiar with Oakeshott...