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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001320099707536

Autore

Hamilton, Paul

Titolo

Historicism / Paul Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York : Routledge, c2003

ISBN

0415290090

0415290104

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 211 p. ; 20 cm.

Collana

The new critical idiom

Soggetti

Critica

Storicismo

Criticism

Historicism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.