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Hamilton, Paul, D. Phil.

Historicism / Paul Hamilton. - 2nd ed. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2003. - vi, 211 p. ; 20 cm. - The new critical idiom .

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

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.

0415290104 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2002153831


Criticism.
Historicism.

PN81 / .H26 2003

801.95 / HAH
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