Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language

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.

Author: Dominick LaCapra
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 09/15/1983
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.03w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780801498862

About the Author
LaCapra, Dominick: - 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 Theory; History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.