Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory

by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

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Charges of abandoned standards issue from government offices; laments for the loss of the best that has been thought and said resound through university corridors. While revisionists are perplexed by questions of value, critical theory--haunted by the heresy of relativism--remains captive to classical formulas. Barbara Herrnstein Smith's book confronts the conceptual problems and sociopolitical conflicts at the heart of these issues and raises their...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674167856

ISBN13:9780674167858

Release Date:September 1988

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:242 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History History & Criticism Humanities Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences

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