Are You Not Doing History?

A, but i don't think there is any denying that the methoological work that skinner did early in his career set up a self image of what counts as real history and what doesn't. That if you buy that image, and he may not, these sort of things take on a life of their own. Whether or not, biographically the originator still believes in them is a wholly separate question. But if you believe in a vision that history is about the past, and if you're talking about the present, then you're not doing history, then i'm happy to say, i'm not doing history. I'm doing political philosophy or political theory, or something like