Last week we called your attention to the death of historian J.G.A. Pocock with a roundup of tweets from historians and other intellectuals reflecting on his legacy. Over at The Critic, Yuan Yi Zhu argues that Pocock’s “Antipodean” (New Zealand) […]
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Historians and other intellectuals remember J.G.A. Pocock
One of the greatest intellectual historians of the post-war area, J.G.A. Pocock, died this week at the age of 99. During graduate school I devoured Pocock’s work. His commitment to reading texts in their historical contexts continues to shape me […]