Two Cheers for Free-Thinking

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ID4389218
AutoresRichard Scholar (0000-0002-0371-7977, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen29
Número1
Páginas40-52
Fecha de publicación2006-03-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaParagraph (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176
EditorialEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/prg.2006.0008
OpenAlexW4245109452, W2047415372
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas6

The phrase around which this number of Paragraph has been organized 'theory and the early modern' opens up a set of questions, creates a certain productive friction, by implying that its two terms may be defined by their mutual opposition. Theory, whatever else it does, sets itself the task of formulating overarching propositions about texts in general; the early modern teems with historically embedded texts that are notable, among other things, for their rich and enigmatic particularity. In what ways, to what extent, can theory illuminate the early modern? Do early modern texts in fact resist the interpretations of theory? Questions of this kind become possible as soon as 'theory' and 'the early modern' two terms that by themselves notoriously elude definition are brought together in an oppositional relation. The scene is set for another skirmish between the systematic and the irreducible, the abstract and the empirical, the transhistorical and the timebound

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Free will · Linguistics · Opposition (politics · Paragraph · Phrase · Politics · Reflexive pronoun · Relation (database · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Computer Science · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

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