Reviews
""No other historian appears to be at the frontier of so many developments or so skillful at integrating them into traditional American scholarship in the history of ideas. In this White seems a successor to A. O. Lovejoy and Ernst Cassirer."", "No other historian appears to be at the frontier of so many developments or so skillful at integrating them into traditional American scholarship in the history of ideas. In this White seems a successor to A. O. Lovejoy and Ernst Cassirer."-- Journal of Modern History, "Like most of White's work, the book arises from a boldly imaginative transaction between the philosophy of history, literary criticism and semiotics."-- Notes and Queries, Like most of White's work, the book arises from a boldly imaginative transaction between the philosophy of history, literary criticism and semiotics., No other historian appears to be at the frontier of so many developments or so skillful at integrating them into traditional American scholarship in the history of ideas. In this White seems a successor to A. O. Lovejoy and Ernst Cassirer.