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Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language

Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language

by Dominick La Capra (Author)

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    Paperback 1983

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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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 31 Aug 1983
ISBN 10: 0801498864
ISBN 13: 9780801498862

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books, including History, Literature, Critical Theory; History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.