Philosophy in History

Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy

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Edited by Richard Rorty and Jerome B. Schneewind,

by Quentin Skinner

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published January 1984, 414 pages, paper

ISBN 0521273307

Sixteen essays confront the debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history. Part I contains more purely theoretical and methodological discussions, while Part II considers a number of case-histories drawn from ancient, early modern and more recent philosophy.