The Spectrality of the Sixties
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Document Type
Book Chapter
Description
Chapter in Historicizing Theory.
Historicizing Theory provides the first serious examination of contemporary theory in relation to the various twentieth-century historical and political contexts out of which it emerged. Theory—a broad category that is often used to encompass theoretical approaches as varied as deconstruction, New Historicism, and postcolonialism—has often been derided as a mere "relic" of the 1960s. In order to move beyond such a simplistic assessment, the essays in this volume examine such important figures as Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt, and Edward Said, situating their work in a variety of contexts inside and outside of the 1960s, including World War II, the Holocaust, the Algerian civil war, and the canon wars of the 1980s. In bringing us face-to-face with the history of theory, Historicizing Theory recuperates history for theory and asks us to confront some of the central issues and problems in literary studies today.
ISBN
9780791459621
Publication Date
2003
Publisher
SUNY Press
City
New York
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
Recommended Citation
Bertram, Benjamin. "The Spectrality of the Sixties" in "Historicizing Theory". New York University Press (2003).
