Linguistic Contextualism of the Cambridge School: The Problem of the Idea as Historical Action by Georgiy R. Khudaybergenov

“…This study critically analyses The Cambridge School’s linguistic contextualism, focusing on the work of John Pocock and Quentin Skinner, in order to identify the limitations of this approach to the writing of intellectual history. The author questions the primacy of linguistic context in text interpretation postulated by The Cambridge School, suggesting that the movement of ideas should be seen not only as an integral part of the speech acts that generate them, but also as determined primarily by social conditions. …”
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(Non-)Paranoid Reading of Sigmund Freud and the Fear of Being Photographed: Corpus-Based Approach by Illia Ilin

“…In contrast, the latter places trust in the text and its author, focusing on the empirically observable surface of the text. …”
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