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Cambridge School contextualism: a standalone construct

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Historiography

reading past political texts as speech acts within their original linguistic context, rather than as timeless answers to perennial questions.

In historiography, Cambridge School contextualism refers to reading past political texts as speech acts within their original linguistic context, rather than as timeless answers to perennial questions. This meaning comes from Skinner (1969) in History and Theory.[1]

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  1. Skinner, Q. (1969). Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas. History and Theory, 8(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.2307/2504188

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