The Open Boundary of History and Fiction: A Critical Approach to the French Enlightenment (Princeton Legacy Library, 5453) [1 ed.]
0691066086, 9780691066080
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Open Boundary of History/Fiction, p.3
Chapter 1 (Voltaire): Establishing Rationality in the Historical Text: Foucault and the Problem of Unreason, p.29
Chapter 2 (Voltaire): The Question of Genre: White, Genette, and the Limits of Formalism, p.57
Chapter 3 (Montesquieu): The Cultural Boundaries of History: Lévi-Strauss, Structuralism, and the Paradoxical Situation of the Outsider, p.95
Chapter 4 (Montesquieu): Idealism and History: Althusser and the Critique of Origins, p.129
Chapter 5 (Condillac, Diderot): The Limits and Conditions of Empirical Knowledge or The Theaters of Perception, p.161
Chapter 6 (Diderot): The Boundaries of Narrative: Determinism and Narrative Theory, p.200
Chapter 7 (Rousseau): The Theatricality of Nature and History: de Man, Derrida, and the Historicity of Language, p.234
Conclusion: History/Fiction and Contemporary Theory, p.285
Index, p.295