Deconstruction and postmodernism have been misunderstood. In this provocative book, Christopher Norris challenges the widespread idea of deconstruction as merely an offshoot of the various trends and cultural phenomena grouped under the label of postmodernism.
Deconstruction and postmodernism have been misunderstood. In this provocative book, Christopher Norris challenges the widespread idea of deconstructio...
Jacques Derrida (born 1930) is undoubtedly the single most influential figure in current Anglo-American literary theory. Yet many scholars and students, not to mention general readers, would be hard put to give an account of Derrida's own writings. In this admirably clear and intelligent introduction, Christopher Norris demonstrates that Derrida's texts should be understood as belonging more to philosophy than to literature. Norris explains the significance of Derrida's writing on texts in the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato to Kant, liegel, and tiusserl, placing him squarely...
Jacques Derrida (born 1930) is undoubtedly the single most influential figure in current Anglo-American literary theory. Yet many scholars and student...
Pays attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. Suiatble for philosophers and critics, this title offers a clear-headed statement of the impact of deconstruction.
Pays attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. Suiatble for philosophers and critics, this title offer...
What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? This title explores such questions in the context of modern analytic and linguistic philosophy.
What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current decon...
Paul de Man (literary critic, literary philosopher, and 'American deconstructionist') changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Here, Norris addresses de Man's relationship to philosophical thinking in the post-Kantian tradition and much more.
Paul de Man (literary critic, literary philosopher, and 'American deconstructionist') changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories...
Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, American deconstructionist - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that offers a much-needed corrective to the pattern of extreme antithetical response which marked the initial reception to de Man's writings. Norris addresses de Man's relationship to philosophical thinking in the post-Kantian tradition, his concern with aesthetic ideology as a potent force of mystification...
Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, American deconstructionist - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and...
What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published, Christopher Norris' book was the first to explore such questions in the context of modern analytic and linguistic philosophy.
What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstruction...
This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. On the one hand, deconstruction brings a vigilant awareness of the figural and narrative tropes that make up the discourse of philosophic reason. On the other it insists that argumentative rigour cannot be divorced from the kind of close reading that has come to characterize literary theory in its more advanced or speculative forms. This present-day 'contest of faculties' has large implications for philosophers and critics, many of whom will...
This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and referen...
Christopher Norris presents a wide-ranging and distinctively angled perspective on many of the most challenging topics in current philosophical debate and explores a range of issues in epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of mind, language, and logic. The book marks a further stage in the author's project of developing a realist, truth-based approach that would point a way beyond the various unresolved dilemmas and dichotomies bequeathed by old-style logical empiricism.
In a series of closely argued chapters Norris draws out the two...
Christopher Norris presents a wide-ranging and distinctively angled perspective on many of the most challenging topics in current ph...
What is a musical work? What are its identity-conditions and the standards (if any) that they set for a competent, intelligent, and musically perceptive act of performance or audition? Should the work-concept henceforth be dissolved as some New Musicologists would have it into the various, ever-changing socio-cultural or ideological contexts that make up its reception-history to date? Can music be thought of as possessing certain attributes, structural features, or intrinsically valuable qualities that are response-transcendent, i.e., that might always elude or surpass the best state of...
What is a musical work? What are its identity-conditions and the standards (if any) that they set for a competent, intelligent, and musically perce...
