Political Theory and Discourse Analysis: The Linguistic Contextualism in Skinner and Pocock

Political theory has included theoretical insights and methodological tools from the contextualist approach (School of Cambridge) that gave enormous contribution in difficult moments. This is an interdisciplinary approach, mainly characterized by linguistic turn, in which some political theorists have taken elements from the Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and Austin's Speech Act Theory. The objective then was to renew the study of political thought and consider political theory a field area of political science. This paper shows the contribution to theory and methodology by Skinner and Pocock, from the School of Cambridge.