In short, cultural history only seems to represent a deepening of insight;
it does not present even the appearance of progress in dialectics. For it
lacks the destructive element that guarantees the authenticity of
dialectical thought and the dialectician's experience. It may well
increase the burden of the treasures that are piled up on humanity's back.
But it does not give mankind the strength to shake them off, so as to get
its hands on them.
Walter Benjamin, 1937
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Symptom History
Call for Papers for a Special Session at the 1999 Modern Language
Association Convention in Chicago
_Symptom History_. Explorations of the relationship between cause and
effect, syndrome and symptom in literature and history in and about early
modern Europe; the viability of medical logic in the assessment of this
relationship. How might one read "symptomatically"? Is literature an
historical symptom? Detailed proposals and vitae by 12 March (query via
email asap).
Stephen Pender
Department of English
University of Toronto
Toronto Ontario
Canada M5S 1A1
spender@chass.utoronto.ca
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