Soundings in critical theory /

This new collection of essays offers a provocative assessment of the nature of historical understanding and the role of critical theory in historical understanding; of the practice of historical writing as a dialogic exchange both with the past and among professional historians and critics; and of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: LaCapra, Dominick, 1939- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1281738
Table of Contents:
  • Criticism today
  • History and psychoanalysis
  • Chartier, Darnton, and the great symbol massacre
  • The temporality of rhetoric
  • Culture and ideology : From Geertz to Marx
  • Up against the ear of the other : Marx after Derrida
  • Intellectual history and critical theory.