A thought-provoking postmodernist analysis of historical narrative. Taking examples ranging from the Haitian Revolution to Columbus Day, Michel-Rolph Trouillot demonstrates how power operates, often invisibly, to silence certain voices at all stages in the making of history.--Fr…
"The preoccupation with the "historicity" of thought and existence is central to the hermeneutic-phenomenological branch of modern philosophy. Its foremost representative is Martin Heidegger, who in his main work Sein und Zeit (1927) developed a theory of historicity, according …
This is the first full study in English of the German historicist tradition. Frederick C. Beiser surveys the major German thinkers on history from the middle of the eighteenth century until the early twentieth century, providing an introduction to each thinker and the main issue…
Greek tragedy and the historian
In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines--psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for histori…