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61Giorgio Tagliacozzo, ed., "Vico: Past and Present" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (4): 581. 1983.
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12The ethics of narrative: essays on history, literature, and theory, 1998-2007Cornell University Press. 2022.The first in a two-volume anthology of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing White as a public intellectual. It places White's thought in context, explaining its major themes, sources, and frames of reference, and features five previously unpublished lectures as well as more complete versions of several published essays.
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22Criticism as Cultural PoliticsBeginnings: Intention and Method (review)Diacritics 6 (3): 8. 1976.
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17Fiery Numbers and Strange Productions: A Cento of Thoughts on Ihab HassanThe Right Promethean Fire (review)Diacritics 10 (4): 50. 1980.
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40Figural Relativism, or the Poetics of HistoriographyMetahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (review)Diacritics 6 (1): 2. 1976.
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3The Arbor scientiae Reconceived and the History of Vico’s Resurrection (review)New Vico Studies 12 (n/a): 114-121. 1994.
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46Michael Herzfeld. "Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass" (review)New Vico Studies 7 (n/a): 126. 1989.
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12The Arbor scientiae Reconceived and the History of Vico’s Resurrection (review)New Vico Studies 12 114-121. 1994.
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4The Gregorian Ideal and Saint Bernard of ClairvauxJournal of the History of Ideas 21 (1/4): 321. 1960.
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54Historicism, History, and the Figurative ImaginationHistory and Theory 14 (4): 48. 1975.Historicism is often regarded as a distortion of properly "historical" understanding; but if one attends to the rhetorical aspects of historical discourse, it appears that ordinary historical narrative prefigures its subject by the language chosen for description no less than historicism does by its generalizing and theoretical interests. Descriptive language is, in fact, figurative and emplots events to suit one or another type of story. Rhetorical analysis shows even an apparently straightforw…Read more
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46Foucault Decoded: Notes from UndergroundHistory and Theory 12 (1): 23-54. 1973.Michel Foucault's Les Mots et les choses correctly asserts that the attempts of the human sciences of the past five hundred years to represent the world in language have failed because these sciences did not recognize the opacity or thingness of language itself. Foucault pretends to have written a plotless anti-history of the human sciences which stresses the discontinuities that characterize the succession of one "'episteme" by another. In fact, he has explained these vicissitudes by the change…Read more
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Theories of History Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, March 6, 1976William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 1978.
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
20th Century Philosophy |