Resumen de Method in the meaning: intentionality and the re-visioning of progressivism
The work of the former Regius Professor of History, Quentin Skinner, and his own particular conception of intentionality, has, outside of the realm of political ideas, received short shrift from the historical community. Despite many of bis ideas proving groundbreaking in effecting a re-evaluation of fundamental polítical theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Niccolo Machiavelli, even within key texts relating to historiography and historical approaches he is rarely, if ever, mentioned. Alun Munslow's otherwise exemplary Companion to Historiography, for example, does not mention Skinner, nor do many of the more standard works relating to the 'practice of history' debate such as those by Richard Evan, Arthur Marwick and Keith Jenkins. Sirnilarly, university courses dealing with approaches to history focus almost exclusively upon the 'standards' of E. H. Carr and Geoffrey Elton, as well as the meta-narrative strands of Marxism, feminism, post-moderni m and post-structuralism.
