French Historical Studies
Выпуск N2 за 1998 год
Опубликовано на портале: 21-11-2003
Bonnie Smith
French Historical Studies.
1998.
Vol. 21.
No. 2.
P. 213-264.
Chartier, Roger is currently Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) as well as Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large
at Cornell University. Since 1969, he has been lecturing and publishing on the relationship
between the material history of institutions and the embodied practices which both
animate and survive these institutions: in particular, early modern techniques of
reading, disseminating and collecting printed information.
The course of Roger Chartier's work indicates the multiple avenues of critical inquiry
available to cultural historians; R. Chartier has been in large part responsible
for defining what this elusive discipline — "cultural history" — might
be. His “On the Edge of the Cliff “ (1997) stages encounters with thinkers
as diverse as Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, Hayden White, Louis
Marin, Philippe Ariès. In the wake of this volume, "French Historical Studies"
published a forum entitled "Critical pragmatism, language, and cultural history".


