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What's Wrong with Postmodernism?

Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy

What's Wrong with Postmodernism?( )
Author: Norris, Christopher
Series title:Parallax
ISBN:978-0-8018-4136-1
Publication Date:Aug 1998
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $50.50
Book Description:

In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the "postmodern-pragmatist malaise" of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulse--an "enlightened or emancipatory interest"--in thinkers like Derrida, de Man, Bhaskar, and Habermas. Offering a provocative reassessment of Derrida's influence on modern thinking, Norris attempts to sever the tie between deconstruction and American literary critics who, he argues, favor endless, playful,...
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Book Details
Pages:296
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Philosophy / Methodology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.9 Inches
Book Weight:1.22 Pounds



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