Quentin Skinner “Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas”
Text about history of ideas
Debate about what characterize a classic work
Skinner is sarcastic about Leo Strauss definition of classics, according to whom: “The classics are so because they contain extemporal knowledges”
Arguments:
You have to look to the text in its particular context, both the social condition and, mostly, the individual perspective.
The semiotic highlights the different meanings and understandings over a same work.
“Structure vs agent” Debate. Skinner play enfasis on particular context, but, without giving up the idea that individuals do matter in the landscape of the structures.
When you read a text you should try to discover what the author tried to meant, how he saw that. You should try to understand the meaning of the language he used to express himself according to the authors proper way to see it.
Against naturalizing meanings, which should always be investigated according to the reality on which they were used.
Importance of understanding the “speech act”.
Semiotic sense of the speeches.
Oblique rethorical strategies (n sakei qq ela quiz dizer c isso ???)...
A reading unobserving this may lead to anachronism (he explains better on pages 58-59).
Talks about the different concepts of democracy on pg. 56.
“MITH OF COHERENCE”… The coherence show it’s failures when viewed and questioned by an outsider
“RESOLVING ANTINOMICS”
He focus a lot in Platos, to show the different possible comprehensions. Mainly in his democracy concept.
Should look for the full range of meanings that the word could have meant when it was initially used.
HE WROTE THAT FOR HIS COLLEAGUES, NOT FOR A BROAD PUBLIC!!!
*The idea of the individual is something extremely new in the history.
** Semiotics were already noted by Parmenides of Eleia, etc...
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