Sherman Paul
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherman Paul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherman |
| FAMILY NAME | Paul |
| SIGNATURE | PAUL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Historian as a Public Moralist: On the Roman Origins of a Scholarly Persona
In her recent book, Virtus Romana, Catalina Balmaceda provides a fascinating analysis of the concept of virtus in Roman historiography. Although virtus, which translates as courage or more generally as virtue, meant different things to different Roman historians, Balmaceda shows that disagreement was never about whether historians should provide readers with examples of virtue. Historians' differences of opinion focused rather on where such model…
A Retrieval of Historicism: Frank Ankersmit's Philosophy of History and Politics
Frank Ankersmit is often perceived as a postmodern thinker, as a European Hayden White, or as an author whose work in political philosophy can safely be ignored by those interested only in his philosophy of history. Although none of these perceptions is entirely wrong, they are of little help in understanding the nature of Ankersmit's work and the sources on which it draws. Specifically, they do not elucidate the extent to which Ankersmit raises …
What Could It Mean for Historians to Maintain a Dialogue With the Past
When historians claim to maintain a "dialogue with the past," this metaphor is usually interpreted in epistemological terms. Although this is not necessarily wrong, the present article presents a broader reading of the metaphor by arguing that the imperative to engage in "dialogue with the past" can be understood as an ethical claim to scholarly integrity. This argument proceeds from the assumption that historians are usually engaged in multiple …
Weak Historicism: On Hierarchies of Intellectual Virtues and Goods
This article seeks to reconcile a historicist sensitivity to how intellectually virtuous behavior is shaped by historical contexts with a non-relativist account of historical scholarship. To that end, it distinguishes between hierarchies of intellectual virtues and hierarchies of intellectual goods. The first hierarchy rejects a one-size-fits-all model of historical virtuousness in favor of a model that allows for significant varieties between th…
Introduction: The Metaphor of Historical Distance
What does "historical distance" mean? Starting with Johan Huizinga, the famous Dutch historian who refused to lecture on contemporary history, this introductory article argues that "historical distance" is a metaphor used in a variety of intellectual contexts. Accordingly, the metaphor has ontological, epistemological, moral, aesthetic, as well as methodological connotations. This implies that historical distance cannot be reduced to a single "pr…
Performing History: How Historical Scholarship Is Shaped by Epistemic Virtues
Philosophers of history in the past few decades have been predominantly interested in issues of explanation and narrative discourse. Consequently, they have focused consistently and almost exclusively on the historian's (published) output, thereby ignoring that historical scholarship is a practice of reading, thinking, discussing, and writing, in which successful performance requires active cultivation of certain skills, attitudes, and virtues. T…
Who Suffered From the Crisis of Historicism? A Dutch Example
Was the crisis of historicism an exclusively German affair? Or was it a "narrowly academic crisis," as is sometimes assumed? Answering both questions in the negative, this paper argues that crises of historicism affected not merely intellectual elites, but even working-class people, not only in Germany, but also in the Netherlands. With an elaborated case study, the article shows that Dutch "neo-Calvinist" Protestants from the 1930s onward experi…
A Collapse of Trust: Reconceptualizing the Crisis of Historicism
This essay redefines the crisis of historicism as a collapse of trust. Following Friedrich Jaeger, it suggests that this crisis should be understood, not as a crisis caused by historicist methods, but as a crisis faced by the classical historicist tradition of Ranke. The "nihilism" and "moral relativism" feared by Troeltsch's generation did not primarily refer to the view that moral universals did not exist; rather, they expressed that the histor…
For Love of the World: Essays on Nature Writers
Essays examine the nature writings of such individuals as John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Henry Beston, Loren Eiseley, Richard Nelson, and Barry Lopez
Hewing to Experience: Essays and Reviews on Recent American Poetry and Poetics, Nature and Culture
In Search of the Primitive: Rereading David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg and Gary Snyder
The Lost America of Love: Rereading Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan
The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change
Olson's Push: Origin, Black Mountain, and Recent American Poetry
Olson's Push: Origin, Black Mountain, and Recent American Poetry
Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael
Dancing the Man
Rereading Creeley
The Adventurous Muse: The Poetics of American Fiction 1789-1900 by William C. Spengemann
Book Review| October 01 1978 The Adventurous Muse: The Poetics of American Fiction 1789–1900 by William C. Spengemann The Adventurous Muse: The Poetics of American Fiction 1789–1900. By Spengemann, William C.. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. ix, 290. $15.00. Sherman Paul Sherman Paul University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (4): 533–535. https://doi.org…
Maximus: Volume 3 or Books VII and after
VII. I'd rather designate the recently published and last installment of The Maximus Poems (New York: Grossman, 1975) in this way. There are three volumes of poems, and George Butterick, one of the editors of this volume and editor of Olson: The Journal of the Charles Olson Archives, has already, here and in the journal, fixed on Volume 3. But readers of Olson's work know there are seven installments, that The Maximus Poems appeared first, in an …
"A Letter on Rosenthal's "Problems of Robert Creeley
The following on Rosenthal's 'Problems of Robert Creeley' was sent to boundary 2 by Sherman Paul after economy measures forced the editor of Parnassus, who had originally accepted the piece, to return it to the author. The editors of boundary 2 found Professor Paul's Letter too important to die an economic death. We felt, above all, a strong sympathy with his emphatic focus on Creeley's commitment to nakednessand its corollary, beginning from the…
Endless Experiments: Essays on the Heroic Experience in American Romanticism
Hart's Bridge
Walden
Edmund Wilson by Leonard Kriegel
Book Review| July 01 1972 Edmund Wilson by Leonard Kriegel Edmund Wilson. By Kriegel, Leonard. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. Pp. xiii, 145. $5.95. Sherman Paul Sherman Paul The University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1972) 71 (3): 450–452. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-71-3-450 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailT…
A Collapse of Trust: Reconceptualizing the Crisis of Historicism
This essay redefines the crisis of historicism as a collapse of trust. Following Friedrich Jaeger, it suggests that this crisis should be understood, not as a crisis caused by historicist methods, but as a crisis faced by the classical historicist tradition of Ranke. The "nihilism" and "moral relativism" feared by Troeltsch's generation did not primarily refer to the view that moral universals did not exist; rather, they expressed that the histor…
Performing History: How Historical Scholarship Is Shaped by Epistemic Virtues
Philosophers of history in the past few decades have been predominantly interested in issues of explanation and narrative discourse. Consequently, they have focused consistently and almost exclusively on the historian's (published) output, thereby ignoring that historical scholarship is a practice of reading, thinking, discussing, and writing, in which successful performance requires active cultivation of certain skills, attitudes, and virtues. T…
A Retrieval of Historicism: Frank Ankersmit's Philosophy of History and Politics
Frank Ankersmit is often perceived as a postmodern thinker, as a European Hayden White, or as an author whose work in political philosophy can safely be ignored by those interested only in his philosophy of history. Although none of these perceptions is entirely wrong, they are of little help in understanding the nature of Ankersmit's work and the sources on which it draws. Specifically, they do not elucidate the extent to which Ankersmit raises …
Introduction: The Metaphor of Historical Distance
What does "historical distance" mean? Starting with Johan Huizinga, the famous Dutch historian who refused to lecture on contemporary history, this introductory article argues that "historical distance" is a metaphor used in a variety of intellectual contexts. Accordingly, the metaphor has ontological, epistemological, moral, aesthetic, as well as methodological connotations. This implies that historical distance cannot be reduced to a single "pr…
Melville's Mardi: A Chartless Voyage
Weak Historicism: On Hierarchies of Intellectual Virtues and Goods
This article seeks to reconcile a historicist sensitivity to how intellectually virtuous behavior is shaped by historical contexts with a non-relativist account of historical scholarship. To that end, it distinguishes between hierarchies of intellectual virtues and hierarchies of intellectual goods. The first hierarchy rejects a one-size-fits-all model of historical virtuousness in favor of a model that allows for significant varieties between th…
Who Suffered From the Crisis of Historicism? A Dutch Example
Was the crisis of historicism an exclusively German affair? Or was it a "narrowly academic crisis," as is sometimes assumed? Answering both questions in the negative, this paper argues that crises of historicism affected not merely intellectual elites, but even working-class people, not only in Germany, but also in the Netherlands. With an elaborated case study, the article shows that Dutch "neo-Calvinist" Protestants from the 1930s onward experi…
What Could It Mean for Historians to Maintain a Dialogue With the Past
When historians claim to maintain a "dialogue with the past," this metaphor is usually interpreted in epistemological terms. Although this is not necessarily wrong, the present article presents a broader reading of the metaphor by arguing that the imperative to engage in "dialogue with the past" can be understood as an ethical claim to scholarly integrity. This argument proceeds from the assumption that historians are usually engaged in multiple …
The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925
The Shores of America: Thoreau's Inward Exploration
The Wise Silence: Sound as the Agency of Correspondence in Thoreau
correspondence was not mystical merger with the One. Of course, such states of identification are the epistemological goal of an idealist metaphysics and have received much descriptive testimony in the writings of the New England Transcendentalists. But for this group of individualists, merger with the Unknown meant not only tapping a source of spiritual strength but a loss of individuality-the submergence of selfin personal, and therefore incomm…
"Melville's "The Town-Ho's Story
Melville
A Reading of Moby-Dick
The American Writer and the European Tradition
Spires of Form: A Study of Emerson's Aesthetic Theory
Milton and Melville
Emerson's Angle of Vision: Man and Nature in American Experience
Emerson's Angle of Vision: Man and Nature in American Experience
Moby-Dick or, the Whale
Emerson's Angle of Vision: Man and Nature in American Experience
Emerson's Angle of Vision, Man and Nature in American Experience
Melville's Mardi: A Chartless Voyage
Moncure Conway, 1832-1907
The Spirit above the Dust: A Study of Herman Melville
Emerson Handbook
"The Literary Criticism of "Young America: A Study in the Relationship of Politics and Literature, 1837-1850
Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson as Mythmaker
Indian Superstition
Transitions in American Literary History
Thoreau: A Century of Criticism
The Individual and the New World: A Study of Man's Existence Based upon American Life and Thought
The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century
The Making of Walden, with the Text of the First Version
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