 | History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies Subjects: France -- Study and teaching; France -- Historiography; Literature and history; History -- Methodology; Tocqueville Alexis de 1805–1859. Ancien régime et la révolution; Foucault Michel. Folie et déraison; LaCapra addresses the ongoing concern with the application of theory to contemporary historical research and analysis through a comparison of two authors seldom read together: Alexis de Tocqueville and Michel Foucault. Lacapra Dominick : Dominick LaCapra is Professor of History, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, Associate Director of the School of Criticism and Theory, and Director of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. |
