Catastrophic Historicism Nancy Pollock This particular critique of law

This particular critique of law was explosive because of law's putatively apolitical status

about 150 Spanish-speaking Protestant churches with more than five thousand adult members existed in the region

whenever that whole event--which is so grand and beautiful from the perspective of the other side--stands before our soul

Drawing on an array of communal sources from across this diaspora

law now plays a pervasive role in the practice of psychiatry

Catastrophic Historicism Nancy Pollock This particular critique of lawCatastrophic Historicism unsettles the historicist constitution of Julia de Burgos (1914 53), Puerto Rico's most iconic writer a critical task that necessitates redefining the concept of historicism. Through readings of Aristotle, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Werner Hamacher, and Frank Ankersmit, Mendoza de Jesus shows that historicism grounds historical objectivity in the historian's capacity to compose totalizing narratives that domesticate the