What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy

(Part of the Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society Series)

by Christopher Norris

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801841372

ISBN13:9780801841378

Release Date:August 1998

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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