Despite the dominance of empiricism in political science, there occurred significant contributions to the study of political ideas and history of political thought in the post-war era. Contextual approach was one of these contributions. In broad terms, the contextual approach stresses the need to historicize the works of political theory in order to understand the particular historical moment and its impact upon the political thinking. The contextual approach is one of the important responds against to the perspectives that ignore the contextual dynamics leading to the emergence of particular ideologies and political aspects.