The History of Ideas. London: Croom Helm

Preston King, Introduction 3
Preston King, Thinking Past as a Problem 21
Michael Oakeshott, The Activity of Being an Historian 68
Preston King, Michael Oakeshott and the Historical Particularism 96
R.G. Collingwood, The Historical Logic of Question and Answer 133
Leo Strauss, On Collingwood’s Philosophy of History 153
A.O. Lovejoy, The Study of the History of Ideas 179
Maurice Mandelbaum, On Lovejoy’s Historiography 198
Leo Straus, Political Philosophy and History 213
John G. Gunnell, The Myth of the Tradition 233
Quentin Skinner, Conventions and the Understanding of Speech Acts 259
Preston King, The Theory of Context and the Case of Hobbes 285