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History and Its Limits : Human, Animal, Violence /

Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: LaCapra, Dominick, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Articulating intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory
  • Vicissitudes of practice and theory
  • "Traumatropisms" : from trauma via witnessing to the sublime?
  • Toward a critique of violence
  • Heidegger, violence, and the origin of the work of art
  • Reopening the question of the human and the animal
  • Tropisms of intellectual history.