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What's Wrong with Postmodernism? Christopher Norris

What's Wrong with Postmodernism? By Christopher Norris

What's Wrong with Postmodernism? by Christopher Norris


Summary

A chapter on Stanley Fish brings several of these topics together and offers a generalized statement on the function of current criticism.

What's Wrong with Postmodernism? Summary

What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy by Christopher Norris

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, polysemic interpretation at the expense of systematic argument. As he explores leftist attempts to arrive at an accommodation with postmodernism, Norris addresses the politics of deconstruction, the issue of men in feminism, Habermas' quarrel with Derrida, narrative theory as a hermeneutic paradigm, musical aesthetics in relation to literary theory, and various aspects of postmodern debate. A chapter on Stanley Fish brings several of these topics together and offers a generalized statement on the function of current criticism.

What's Wrong with Postmodernism? Reviews

If I had to recommend one book on postmodern theory, this would be it. -- Gregory Meyerson English Literature in Transition

About Christopher Norris

Christopher Norris is professor of English at the University of Wales at Cardiff. He is the author of many books including The Deconstructive Turn and Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory.

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GOR006223582
9780801841378
0801841372
What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy by Christopher Norris
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Johns Hopkins University Press
1998-08-21
296
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