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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 who, he argues, favor endless, playful, polysemic interpretation at the expense of systematic argument.

As he explores leftist attempts to arrive at an accommodation with postmodernism, Norris addresses the politics of deconstruction, the issue of men in feminism, Habermas' quarrel with Derrida, narrative theory as a hermeneutic paradigm, musical aesthetics in relation to literary theory, and various aspects of postmodern debate. A chapter on Stanley Fish brings several of these topics together and offers a generalized statement on the function of current criticism.

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  • Title What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy
  • Author Christopher Norris
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Publication date 1998-08-21
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780801841378 / 0801841372
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.97 x 5.89 x 0.75 in (22.78 x 14.96 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature - Philosophy, Postmodernism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90038438
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909.828

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Christopher Norris is professor of English at the University of Wales at Cardiff. He is the author of many books including The Deconstructive Turn and Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory.

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