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An introduction to themes of criticism that should be common, but aren't.
The central question addressed in this assignment concerns the interpretation of philosophical texts of the past. What is it to take up a critical attitude towards a work in the history of philosophy? What hermeneutical procedures and practices can give guidance here? There are, without doubt, very few agreed rules but at least one guiding principle comes to mind, namely, that the critic should be sensitive to the historical nature of texts, and all that that involves. To be oblivious to this advice is to develop anachronistic readings and hence, to derive misplaced and distorting critical judgements.
A short article on why the historical critical method still matters.
Published in The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School, Peter Gordon, Espen Hammer and Axel Honneth (eds.), Routledge 2018
Critique & Betrayal, 2020
Historical-critical methods of study have proven quite successful in illuminating the history, religion, and culture of ancient Israel. So successful, in fact, that historical critics have routinely shown just as much, and at times even more, interest in reconstructing the history and religion of Israel than in reading the very texts in which this history and religion are embedded. This neglect of reading has opened up the historical-critical project to a whole host of criticism, especially from a new generation of literary critics who are now prominent in the field. Very generally, these critics have noted that whatever more one makes of the Hebrew Bible, it is first and foremost a collection of literary texts, and as such, it requires to be studied and read like any other body of literature. This observation has struck a receptive chord among biblical scholars, resulting in a renewed and vigorous interest in the literary study of the Hebrew Bible. This has been a very positive development for the field. The Hebrew Bible has long cried out for sophisticated and theoretically informed treatments of its constituent texts as literature. Yet there is a problem. Many of the literary approaches currently applied to the Hebrew Bible exhibit an alarming disinterest in history and in the more diachronic aspects of textual study. As D. Jobling writes, "The most troublesome methodological problems continue to lie in the relationship of literary reading of the Bible to historical hypotheses about it." 1 The problem of literature and history provides the focus for the present essay. 2 It is my belief that the current ahistoricist orientation of biblical literary criticism is severely wrongheaded. Literary study of whatever kind, and especially of the Hebrew Bible, cannot escape history, and therefore what is required is a program
Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History, 2020
This is a paper that I wrote for OT Exegesis class, just slightly edited. In the first part, I attempt to triangulate the mentality of historical critical approach by reviewing work of Spinoza, Eichhorn, and Wellhausen. In the second part, I'm reviewing reception of historical criticism in conservative camp, by "close reading" school (Cassuto, Clines) and by theological exegesis movement (Barth, Childs, Moberly, Hays). I contend that whereas historical critical approach is essentially modern, theological exegesis is essentially postmodern. I think that Childs, in a sense, was a prototype postmodern scholar. In the concluding chapter I'm contemplating proper places of synchronic and diachronic approach and giving an example.
Diacritics, 1987
Suzanne Gearhart’s essay offers another perspective on the relations between Hayden White’s work and my own. It also analyzes the role, in the books she analyzes, of my attempt to rethink intellectual history in terms of the relations among history, philosophy, literature, and criticism.
Biopreservation and Biobanking, 2010
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2021
Filosofia Unisinos, 2022
William Ofori, 2023
Debates en sociología, 2023
SVU-International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Applications, 2022
Bayesian Analysis, 2016
Anuario De Estudios Centroamericanos, 2014
Operators and Matrices, 2021
Vision Research, 1997
International journal of health sciences, 2009