1. Professor Quentin Skinner gave this presentation at the meeting of the Applied Section on 26 September 2007. The argument draws on several chapters from Quentin Skinner, Regarding method (Cambridge, 2002).
2. E.D. Hirsch Jr., Validity in interpretation (New Haven, 1967).
Notes
1. Professor Quentin Skinner gave this presentation at the meeting of the Applied Section on 26 September 2007. The argument draws on several chapters from Quentin Skinner, Regarding method (Cambridge, 2002).
2. E.D. Hirsch Jr., Validity in interpretation (New Haven, 1967).
3. J. Derrida, Of grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore, MD, 1976, esp. pp. 6–73). Also Writing and difference, trans. Alan Bass (London, 1978, esp. pp. 278–93).
4. W.B. Yeats, Selected poetry, ed. A. Norman Jeffares (London, 1962, p. 129).
5. J. Passmore, Hume’s intentions (Cambridge, 1952).
6. C. Geertz, Available light (Princeton, NJ, 2000, esp. pp. xi–xiii).
7. J. Derrida, Spurs [Éperons], trans. Barbara Harlow (Chicago, IL, 1979, pp. 122–3).
8. Derrida, Spurs, p. 128.
9. Derrida, Spurs, p. 128.
10. For Gadamer on Collingwood, see Hans‐Georg Gadamer, Truth and method (London, 1975, pp. 333–6, 467–8).
11. As proposed, for example, in Annabel Brett, ‘What is intellectual history now?’ in David Cannadine, ed., What is history now (London, 2002, pp. 113–31).
12. Graham Hough, ‘An eighth type of ambiguity’ in On Literary intention, David Newton‐De Molina, ed. (Edinburgh, 1976, pp. 222–41, at p. 227).