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Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language - Softcover

LaCapra, Dominick

 
9780801498862: Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language

Synopsis

Dominick LaCapra calls for a new view of intellectual history―one that will revitalize the importance of reading and interpreting significant texts. In ten essays, he reformulates the problem of the relation between the "great" texts of the Western tradition and their contexts. Seeking to refine "context" into a concept useful to historical research, LaCapra urges intellectual historians to learn from lessons and developments in contemporary literary criticism and philosophy, fields that have undertaken a radical reassessment of the reading of texts.

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About the Author

Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Literature and Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of many books, including History, Literature, Critical TheoryHistory and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.

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