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- Publication Date
- 1989-08-25
- Pages
- 213
- ISBN
- 9780801495724
- Publication Year
- 1989
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Soundings in Critical Theory
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, History, Philosophy
- Topic
- Historiography, General, Semiotics & Theory, Movements / Critical Theory
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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In Soundings in Critical Theory , Dominick LaCapra continues his attempt to fashion a historiography that is at once critical and self-critical. This 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 the problem of how to read texts and documents in relation to processes of contextual understanding. A central concern of the volume is the interaction between Marxism, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism, and all of the essays demonstrate the complex ways in which this trio of critical theories continues to affect how historians frame their task. LaCapra first provides a general appraisal of the problems and possibilities of criticism as a genre that questions its own limits, and examines the roles of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Mikhail Bakhtin in the development of contemporary criticism. Subsequent chapters address such issues as the implications of psychoanalysis for the writing of history, the debate between Robert Darnton and Roger Chartier concerning the status of the symbolic dimension in history, and the problem of how best to read and make use of Marx's work. LaCapra concludes by exploring the larger project of forging viable links between history and critical theory and by evaluating the contributions of deconstruction and the new historicism to this project.
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801495725
ISBN-13
9780801495724
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1096444
Product Key Features
Book Title
Soundings in Critical Theory
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Historiography, General, Semiotics & Theory, Movements / Critical Theory
Publication Year
1989
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Philosophy
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
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Pn94.L35 1989
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"Dominick LaCapra's work has become both exceptional and increasingly influential through its self-conscious, interdisciplinary exploration of the connections among literature, history, social theory, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, and contemporary culture. Soundings in Critical Theory serves on one level as a restatement of LaCapra's earlier advocacy of a critical, dialogic intellectual history that draws on literary theory to develop new readings of influential texts and contexts in the Western tradition. But this book also goes significantly beyond his previous work in its focus on possible directions for a transformative critical theory that might help us change the ideologies, politics, culture, and institutions of contemporary societies."-Lloyd S. Kramer, Criticism, "Dominick LaCapra has become an important voice in contemporary critical work in the human sciences, and in this volume he continues to articulate issues and problems in a way that forces people in a variety of disciplines to examine their assumptions and rethink their strategies."--Michael S. Roth, Wesleyan University, "Dominick LaCapra is unequalled in his ability to bring theoretical concerns that are associated with literary theory to the attention of historians. He is responsible for enlivening the discipline of history and compelling historians to rethink their foundational assumptions, which normally go unquestioned."--Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine, "Dominick LaCapra's work has become both exceptional and increasingly influential through its self-conscious, interdisciplinary exploration of the connections among literature, history, social theory, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, and contemporary culture. Soundings in Critical Theory serves on one level as a restatement of LaCapra's earlier advocacy of a critical, dialogic intellectual history that draws on literary theory to develop new readings of influential texts and contexts in the Western tradition. But this book also goes significantly beyond his previous work in its focus on possible directions for a transformative critical theory that might help us change the ideologies, politics, culture, and institutions of contemporary societies."--Lloyd S. Kramer, Criticism
Table of Content
Introduction 1 Criticism Today 2 History and Psychoanalysis 3 Chartier, Darnton, and the Great Symbol Massacre 4 The Temporality of Rhetoric 5 Culture and Ideology: From Geertz to Marx 6 Up against the Ear of the Other: Marx after Derrida 7 Intellectual History and Critical Theory Index
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89-030080
Dewey Decimal
801/.95/0904
Dewey Edition
19
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