sentences:  Philosophical concerns include postanalytic approaches to subjectivity, social inquiry, ethics, and democratic theory.Bevir is the author of "The Logic of the History of Ideas" (1999), which builds on the work of analytic philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Donald Davidson to "undertake a normative study of the forms of reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas".His approach is intended to complement, and not directly oppose, the Cambridge School of history of political thought which focuses on recovering meanings of historical texts, and hermeneutic theorists concerned with the phenomenology of understanding.