Rethinking Intellectual History

Texts, Contexts, Language

Dominick LaCapra

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Cornell University Press
15 September 1983

Historiography; Philosophy

"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."

By: Dominick LaCapra
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9780801498862
ISBN 10: 0801498864
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 15 September 1983
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History atCornell University. He is the author of many books, includingHistory, Literature, Critical Theory;History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; andHistory in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory, all from Cornell.

Reviews for Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this work for the intellectual historian, philosopher, or literary theorist-in short for anyone concerned with texts. -Larry Shiner, Sangamon State University, Clio, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1984 This brilliant collection of essays provides a guide to a remarkable range of figures and issues in current critical debate. -David Jobling, St. Andrew's College, Religious Studies Review, July 1985