The truth about postmodernism / Christopher Norris.
The truth about postmodernism / Christopher Norris.
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Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1993.
Date
1993.
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N149.9/5
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English
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333 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The 'End of Ideology' Again: Old Themes for New Times -- 'What Is Enlightenment': Foucault on Kant -- For Truth in Criticism: William Empson and the Claims of Theory -- Kant Disfigured: Ethics, Deconstruction and the Textual Sublime -- Getting at Truth: Genealogy, Critique and Postmodern Scepticism.
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Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1993.
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England
Date Published
1993.
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"As its title suggests, The Truth About Postmodernism disputes a good deal of what currently passes for advanced theoretical wisdom. Above all it mounts a challenge to those fashionable doctrines - variants of the 'end-of-ideology' theme - that assimilate truth to some existing range of language-games, discourses, or in-place consensus beliefs. Nor...
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The truth about postmodernism / Christopher Norris.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index.
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N149.9/5
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0631187189 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780631187172 (acid-free paper)
0631187170 (acid-free paper)
9780631187189 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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149.9
1499
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991020853539702626