On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the centu
For almost twenty years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In Practicing the New Historici
This is the first history in English of German historicism, the intellectual tradition which holds that history is the key to understanding all human values, be
Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick d
Bambach's account of the demise of historicism within the context of German metaphysics provides a new perspective on the development of Heidegger's concept of