Reviews for Mixing memory and desire

The average rating for Mixing memory and desire based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-11 00:00:00 David Mack What can you say about J.G.A. Pocock? Simply the greatest historical mind of the twentieth century. These essays are perhaps the most useful of his writings because they provide some succinct summaries of key arguments (as opposed to brilliant but long monographs that take some serious time to work through). These essays transformed the intellectual history of England, and of North America too (although North American historians hang on to Locke with deep belligerence). It was thanks to Pocock's reconstruction of the early modern idea of patriotic virtue that I was able to understand the world around me when I (a native of England) lived for five years in North Carolina.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-28 00:00:00 Tim Gann I don't know why I bother with literary criticism. Most of it is dressing up the obvious in a cloak of complexity. I suppose I'm looking for those little nuggets of insight. Not that many here, though.