The truth about postmodernism
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The truth about postmodernism
Blackwell, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780631187172
内容説明
This book attempts to sort out the confusion and misreadings - especially misreadings of Kant - that have characterized recent postmodernist and post-structuralist thought. These issues have a relevance, as Norris argues, far beyond the seemingly specialized enclaves of philosophy, literary theory and cultural criticism. In fact they are within reach of the single most urgent question nowadays confronting left-wing thinkers in Britain and the United States: namely, what remains of the socialist project (and its grounding in the values of enlightenment critique) at a time when distorted consensus beliefs have gone so far toward setting the agenda for "informed" or "realistic" political debate? 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 on the "end of ideology" theme - that assimilates truth to some existing range of language - games, discourses, or in-place consensus beliefs.
Norris's book should serve as a reminder that the "politics of theory" cannot be practised in safe isolation from the politics (and ethics) of activist social concern. The text is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduates, academics and researchers in literature, philosophy, sociology and politics.
目次
- The "End of Ideology" revisited - 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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: pbk ISBN 9780631187189
内容説明
This book was written with a view to sorting our some of the muddles and misreadings - especially misreadings of Kant - that have charaterized recent postmodernist and post-structuralist thought. For these issues have a relevance, as Norris argues, far beyond the academic enclaves of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism. Thus he makes large claims for the importance of getting Kant right on the relation between epistemology, ethics and aesthetics; for pursuing the Kantian question 'What is Enlightenment?' as raised in Foucault's late essays; or again, for recalling William Empson's spirited attempt to reassert the values of reason and truth against the orthodox 'lit crit' wisdom of his time. These are specialized concerns. But for better or worse it has been largely in the context of 'theory'- that capacious though ill-defined genre- that such issues have received their most scrutiny over the past two decades. As its title suggests, The Truth About Postmodernism disputes a good deal of what currently passes for advance 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. Norris's book will be welcomed for its clarity of style, its depth of philosophical engagement, and its refusal to endorse the more facile varieties of present-day textualist thought. It will also serve as a timely reminder that the 'politics of theory' cannot be practised in safe isolation from the politics (and ethics) of activist social concern.
目次
- The "End of Ideology" revisited - 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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