"LaCapra offers an intriguing collection of essays to support both
his enthusiasm for intellectual history . . . and his concern about
the 'excesses' he finds in techniques and practices of the new
social history. Admitting that the essays are polemical with a
'measure of exaggeration and a stylization of arguments, ' LaCapra
seeks to restore the historian's appreciation for 'great'
literature, the techniques of literary criticism, and the rhetoric
that must be studied and analyzed to integrate this criticism into
historical analysis. LaCapra calls for an engaged dialogue with the
past on both an objective and a subjective plane. . . . He] shows
great familiarity with (and due respect for) recent innovations of
social historians and theoreticians using the Annales approach. As
a critique of their work as well as a defense of LaCapra's
alternatives, this is a valuable study." Choice"
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