History, Theory, Text Historians and the Linguistic Turn

Name: History, Theory, Text Historians and the Linguistic Turn
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ISBN: 9780674015845

ISBN-10: 0674015843

ISBN-13: 9780674015845

Edition: 2004

Authors: Elizabeth A. Clark

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In this work of sweeping erudition, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Elizabeth Clark argues forcefully for a renewal of the study of premodern Western history through engagement with the kinds of critical methods that have transformed other humanities disciplines in recent decades. History, Theory, Text provides a user-friendly survey of crucial developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century debates surrounding history, philosophy, and critical theory. Beginning with the "noble dream" of "history as it really was" in the works of…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Elizaebth A. Clark is John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of numerous books, including Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity and History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn.




Defending and lamenting history



Anglo-American philosophy and the historians



Language and structures



The territory of the historians



Narrative and history



The new intellectual history



Texts and contexts



History, theory, and premodern texts