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Quotes from History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies — Dominick LaCapra

born 1939 United States

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Reading in both its literal and metaphoric senses is a crucial constituent of the problem of language, and it is reciprocally related to writing. A mode of reading implies a mode of writing (and vice versa). In this sense, a different mode of reading would imply that the writing of history would also undergo significant variations and that historical works might take different forms.

History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies (2000)

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