The Emperor Redressed Critiquing Critical Theory |
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Editor:
| Eddins, Dwight |
Introduction by:
| Eddins, Dwight |
Contribution by:
| Abrams, M. H. Crews, Frederick Levin, Richard Morson, Gary Saul Baym, Nina Hassan, Ihab Lehman, David Livingston, Paisley Searle, John R. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8173-8791-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2014 |
Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $139.95 |
Book Description:
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There have been signs now, for some time, that poststructuralist hegemony is declining. This book helps us to understand the theoretical flaws that make this decline inevitable. The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy, and of the assumptions involved therin, by a group of our most prominent scholars. These scholars were...
More Description There have been signs now, for some time, that poststructuralist hegemony is declining. This book helps us to understand the theoretical flaws that make this decline inevitable.
The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy, and of the assumptions involved therin, by a group of our most prominent scholars. These scholars were charged with examining the truth-value, methodology, practice, and humanistic status of poststructuralist theories and with speculating on what their conclusions portend for the future of theory. They provide cogent evidence that the poststructuralist heyday has passed.