I shall concentrate on three distinct but connected approaches to the problem: the ideas of
modernity as a category of historical periodization, a quality of social experience, and an …

Thinking at once negatively and positively about it is a beginning, but what we need is a new
vocabulary. The languages that have been useful in talking about culture and politics in the …

It was the wording of Lawrence Stone's note that first attracted my attention. 1 By speaking of
recent conceptual developments which have affected the historical field as" threats" and" …

Lawrence Stone appears to have elected himself as the defender of" history" against the
threefold threat of" post-modernism", namely, in Stone's terms, structuralist and post …

Post-structuralism, we know, has boldly pronounced all authors" dead". Being still among
the living, however, I would like to thank the editors of Past and Present for their thoughtful …

Antiquity and Modernity The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how these
connect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume. Modernity is typically …

The Modernism/Postmodernism distinction (whatever we make of it) cannot help bringing up
the larger question of the status of period terms in today's critical discourse. And looming not …

From its inception, this project has benefited from generous intellectual and material support
from a wide range of people. First, I'd like to thank the University of Victoria for the study …

JOHN FROW| concepts of the post-colonial and the post-modern are perhaps most
consistently defined in terms of their difference from and their difficult and ambivalent …

POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND POSTMARXISM JUDITH BUTLER Drucilla Cornell. THE
PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIMIT. New York: Routledge, 1992. Ernesto Laclau." BEYOND …