Posts Tagged ‘reception history’
History is a science of ghosts—just ask Michelet. Or Hegel, for that matter. But the problem with adopting the vocabulary of Derrida’s Specters of Marx (for example, like Ethan Kleinberg does) is that one feels like Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, seeing ghosts all the time. Not untrue, but unsatisfying. It took very [...]
In about a month, I’ll be trialling a few of my ideas at the United States Intellectual History conference in New York. It’ll be a great forum to trot out my work on the reception of Derrida for a few reasons: 1. Intellectual historians were the only subset of US historians who moved towards taking [...]
Just not now, given I’m focused on writing reception history. Though, really, this is relevant.
Gavin Kitching (Politics, UNSW), has just had a new book published, The Trouble With Theory (Allen & Unwin, 2008). There was an extract, or adaptation, in last week’s Australian. Kitching took 20 something Honours theses – all of which utilised “postmodern” [...]
