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Deconstruction and the 'unfinished project of modernity'

Christopher Norris

Routledge, 2000

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Deconstruction and the unfinished project of modernity

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Through a close engagement with some key thinkers, Norris argues that deconstruction is part of the "unfinished project of modernity." a project whose interest and values it upholds by continuing to question them in a spirit of enlightened self-critical inquiry.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Deconstruction versus Postmodernism: epistemology, ethics, aesthetics -- Chapter 2 Postmodern Ethics and the Trouble with Relativism -- Chapter 3 Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity' -- Chapter 4 Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy of Science -- Chapter 5 'The Idea of the University': some interdisciplinary soundings -- Chapter 6 Ethics, Autonomy and Self-Invention: debating Foucault -- Chapter 7 'The Night in which All Cows are Black': Paul de Man, 'mere reading' and indifference to philosophy -- Chapter 8 Conflict, Compromise or Complementarity: ideas of science in modern literary theory -- Chapter 9 Sexed Equations and Vexed Physicists: the 'two cultures' revisited -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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  • NCID
    BA58684550
  • ISBN
    • 0415929563
  • LCCN
    00056030
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    240 p.
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