Historicism [electronic resource] / Paul Hamilton.
This updated edition provides an introduction to the crucial concept of historicism. It explains the theory & practice, presents the history of the term & its uses, introduces key thinkers in the field & considers historicism in relation to contemporary debates, such as feminism & gl...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | New critical idiom.
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Table of 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.