What's Wrong with Postmodernism?

Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy

By:

Christopher Norris

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Paperback / softback

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Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society

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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.

Author Biography:

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'.

Release date Australia

October 16th, 1998

Author

Christopher Norris

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

296

Series

Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780801841378

Product ID

6115119

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