Add to ORKGThis dissertation breaks new ground in the debates surrounding contemporary theories of the end of history. I survey and critique the contemporary theories of posthistory advanced by Lutz Niethammer, David Bennett, Frederic Jameson, Francis Fukuyama, and Gianni Vattimo. I offer instead a theory of posthistory that foregrounds discursive practices that undermine notions of authorship and identity, employ bricolage to collapse time, space, and hierarchy, and assert that the past is not something we discover as much as it is a signifying formation we construct retroactively, a botched product of memory and desire. While history provides a form of sadistic pleasure dependent on control, posthistory ultimately endorses a form of ironic mas...
This dissertation asserts that critical historiography, a term first used by Stefan Berger and later...
In this dissertation, aspects of the creative process involved in `writing the past' are theorised f...
Historical theory, as a mode of theoretical criticism, engages in both descriptive and prescriptive ...
This project combines principles from psychoanalytic theory and cultural criticism in order to rethi...
The nature of history has always been studied and analyzed from different perspectives throughout th...
This dissertation traces the ways in which history was imagined in the 18th and 19th centuries in th...
This introductory chapter situates ancient constructions of the past, in historiography and in other...
There are several reasons why postmodernism is generally regarded as incompatible with doing histor...
Has history come to an end? The novels under discussion here examine posthistorical paralysis and in...
This paper argues that we can let go of the conception of narrative history, not because we know his...
Contemporary Italian philosopher, Gianni Vattimo (1991), has described ‘the end of history’ as a mot...
Today’s technological-scientific prospect of posthumanity simultaneously evokes and defies historic...
The paper elaborates on some of the ways historians attempt to preserve distinctions from academics ...
This dissertation argues that postmodern American fiction has strategically performed a series of re...
In the past twenty years scholars have engaged with exploring the function and process of historical...
This dissertation asserts that critical historiography, a term first used by Stefan Berger and later...
In this dissertation, aspects of the creative process involved in `writing the past' are theorised f...
Historical theory, as a mode of theoretical criticism, engages in both descriptive and prescriptive ...
This project combines principles from psychoanalytic theory and cultural criticism in order to rethi...
The nature of history has always been studied and analyzed from different perspectives throughout th...
This dissertation traces the ways in which history was imagined in the 18th and 19th centuries in th...
This introductory chapter situates ancient constructions of the past, in historiography and in other...
There are several reasons why postmodernism is generally regarded as incompatible with doing histor...
Has history come to an end? The novels under discussion here examine posthistorical paralysis and in...
This paper argues that we can let go of the conception of narrative history, not because we know his...
Contemporary Italian philosopher, Gianni Vattimo (1991), has described ‘the end of history’ as a mot...
Today’s technological-scientific prospect of posthumanity simultaneously evokes and defies historic...
The paper elaborates on some of the ways historians attempt to preserve distinctions from academics ...
This dissertation argues that postmodern American fiction has strategically performed a series of re...
In the past twenty years scholars have engaged with exploring the function and process of historical...
This dissertation asserts that critical historiography, a term first used by Stefan Berger and later...
In this dissertation, aspects of the creative process involved in `writing the past' are theorised f...
Historical theory, as a mode of theoretical criticism, engages in both descriptive and prescriptive ...