Hamilton P. Historicism

Routledge, 1995. — x, 224 p. — (The New Critical Idiom). — ISBN: 0-415-13311-4, 0-415-11051-3, 0-203-99323-3.
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Historicism is a critical movement which has existed in some form from ancient Greece to modern times — but what exactly does it entail? In this lucid volume Paul Hamilton provides the essential key to learning the history, terminology and usage of historicism.
Hamilton discusses the major thinkers in historicism, both past and present. With straightforwardness and clarity he provides his readers with the vocabulary to engage with historicism and literary theory. The differences between historicism and new historicism are explained and Hamilton provides links to contemporary debates such as feminism and post-colonialism.
Historicism is essential reading for any student new to the sometimes bewildering field of literary theory. It is an ideal introductory guide and an invaluable foundation for further learning.Series Editor’s Preface
AcknowledgementsHistory and Historicism
The Poetics of History
The Nature of Historical Explanation
Historicism and Historiography
The Rise of Historicism
Enlightenment by Natural Law
Critiques of Enlightenment — Vico and Herder
Kant and Hegel — Towards Hermeneutics
The Hermeneutic TraditionSchleiermacher — The Grammar and Divination of History
Dilthey’s Critique of Historical Reason
Gadamer and the Event of Meaning
Historicism and Modernity
Marx’s Poetry of the Future
Nietzsche’s Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Freud, Lacan and the Illusion of a Future
Historicisms of the Present
Foucault — from Anti-Historicist Theory to New Historicist Practice
Derrida’s Post Cards
New Historicism
Postcolonial Stylistics and Postmodern Logic
Herstory