The History of Ideas and the Politics of the Past

Quint: What he preached early in his career isn't what his most valuable contribution to actual scholarly practice is. He was attacking people like leo strauss, like a plaminec for their kind of text worship and arguing that a historical texts need to be read in their context,. as of their time. And although he republished his early programmatic essays, his methological essays, i think it was in two thousand and two he republished them. Now, i think his whole attempt to find alternatives in the past, specifically his theory of oneo roman, but there are other examples that he and his circle have behave been working on., isn't really a purely historical project