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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818836303321

Titolo

After poststructuralism : writing the intellectual history of theory / / edited by Tilottama Rajan and Michael J. O'Driscoll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-4426-7068-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

Historiography - History

History - Methodology

Theory (Philosophy) - History

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Some theoretical and historical complications in Hegel's aesthetics of comedy / Stanley Corngold -- The double detour : Satre, Heidegger, and the genealogy of deconstruction / Tilottama Rajan -- The premodern condition : neo-primitivism in Baudrillard and Lyotard / Victor Li -- The sublime between history and theory : Hegel, de Man, and beyond / Ian Balfour.

Sommario/riassunto

Tackles the issue of providing an intellectual history of theory, given the considerable continuity between theory and the history of ideas. The editors address this challenge with thirteen essays on a variety of theorists from Derrida to Zizek.