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Retroperspectiva y perspicacia: El emergentismo crítico de Polibio a Wilde (Insight in Hindsight: Critical Emergentism from Polybius to Wilde)

2013; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

1556-5068

García Landa, José Ángel,

History and Politics in Latin America

Leemos el ensayo de Oscar Wilde The Rise of Historical Criticism, analizando el concepto wildeano de la historiografia critica de Polibio, con enfasis particular en las cuestiones de la distorsion retroactiva y de la hermeneutica de la retrospeccion, y situando a Wilde en la tradicion de la teoria emergentista y del evolucionismo cultural. This paper is a reading of Oscar Wilde's essay The Rise of Historical Criticism, analyzing Oscar Wilde's conception of Polybius's critical historiography, with a particular focus on the issues of hindsight bias, on the hermeneutics of retrospection and on Wilde's position within the tradition of emergentist theory and cultural evolutionism.