Point of Wonder
A.D. Nuttall, 5 December 1991
Marvellous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World
by Stephen Greenblatt.
Oxford, 202 pp., £22.50, September 1991,0 19 812382 5 Show More
by Stephen Greenblatt.
Oxford, 202 pp., £22.50, September 1991,
“... a permanent, necessary form to reality. He wrote, in a way which still seems bizarre to me, as if Karl Popper had never existed, had never argued in The Poverty of Historicism that the most spectacular version of essentialism in modern times was the Marxian theory of the necessary form of history. Dollimore instead assumes that everyone knows that the ... ”