Historicism / Paul Hamilton.

Author/creator Hamilton, Paul, 1950-
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Descriptionvi, 211 pages ; 20 cm.
Subjects

SeriesNew critical idiom
Critical idiom. ^A23377
Contents History and historicism. The poetics of history -- The nature of historical explanation -- Historicism and historiography -- The rise of historicism. Enlightenment by natural law -- Critiques of enlightenment--Vico and Herder -- Kant and Hegel--towards hermeneutics -- The hermeneutic tradition. Origins of hermeneutics -- Schleiermacher--the grammar and divination of history -- Dilthey's critique of historical reason -- Gadamer and the event of meaning -- Historicism and modernity. Marx's poetry of the future -- Nietzsche's prelude to a philosophy of the future -- Freud, Lacan and the illusion of a future -- Historicism of the present. Foucault--from anti-historicist theory to new historicist practice -- Derrida's postcards -- New historicism -- Postcolonial stylistics and postmodern logic -- Herstory -- Globalization and the end of history.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [194]-206) and index.
LCCN 2002153831
ISBN0415290090 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0415290104 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN81 .H26 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold