Historicism Book

	Series Editor's Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	History and Historicism	7
	The Poetics of History	7
	The Nature of Historical Explanation	14
	Historicism and Historiography	20
2	The Rise of Historicism	30
	Enlightenment by Natural Law	30
	Critiques of Enlightenment - Vico and Herder	35
	Kant and Hegel - Towards Hermeneutics	42
3	The Hermeneutic Tradition	51
	Schleiermacher - The Grammar and Divination of History	56
	Dilthey's Critique of Historical Reason	68
	Gadamer and the Event of Meaning	81
4	Historicism and Modernity	99
	Marx's Poetry of the Future	99
	Nietzsche's Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future	108
	Freud, Lacan and the Illusion of a Future	117
5	Historicisms of the Present	133
	Foucault - from Anti-Historicist Theory to New Historicist Practice	133
	Derrida's Post Cards	144
	New Historicism	150
	Postcolonial Stylistics and Postmodern Logic	175
	Herstory	189
	Conclusion	205
	Bibliography	210