Critical Conditions: Postmodernity and the Question of Foundations

ISBN-13: 9780521450478 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 286 str.

Horace L. Fairlamb (University of Houston)

Opis

An examination and revaluation of contemporary theories about the foundations of knowledge and meaning, first published in 1994.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Fish's strong conventions: the mind's own world; 2. Brave new words: postmoderism on epistemology; 3. Theory and/or deconstruction: Derrida slippage; 4. Gadamer's universalism: the limits of hermeneutic authority; 5. Critical politics: deconstruction for Americans; 6. Foucault's microphysical politics: big brother is missing; 7. Habermas' neo-formalism: theory as praxis; 8. Critical theory and postmodern localism: rebels without a cause; Conclusion.