ABSTRACT In 1992, John Dunn published an essay in Italian (which came out in English only years later) in which he summarized and clarified certain aspects of his historiographical vision concerning the history of political theory. A careful analysis of the text – corroborated by a consideration of later comments as well as general historical-theoretical references – gives us an insight into the lights and shadows of his thought. This reinterpretation reveals the originality of a perspective that examined the meaning of ‘canon’ within the history of political theory, and indicated certain cultural and political aims to be consciously pursued through it. This original thought has recently been consolidated by other considerations on the need for a global history of political thought capable of offering interesting food for thought. Nevertheless, these seem to have emerged from a change of opinion on Dunn’s part, focusing to a greater extent on certain (more or less well-defined) moral duties that should be pursued by scholars of the history of political thought.

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约翰·邓恩与政治理论史

摘要 1992 年，约翰·邓恩 (John Dunn) 用意大利语发表了一篇文章（几年后才以英文版出版），其中总结并阐明了他关于政治理论史的史学视野的某些方面。对文本的仔细分析——通过考虑后来的评论以及一般的历史理论参考来证实——让我们深入了解他思想的光影。这种重新解释揭示了在政治理论史上审视“经典”含义的视角的独创性，并表明通过它有意识地追求某些文化和政治目标。这个最初的想法最近被其他考虑巩固，即需要能够提供有趣的思想食粮的全球政治思想史。尽管如此，