Critical Conditions
Postmodernity and the Question of Foundations
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- Author: Horace L. Fairlamb, University of Houston
- Date Published: May 1994
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521450478
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The postmodern debate has been heavily influenced by often contradictory conclusions about the foundations of knowledge: hermeneutics challenges epistemology, politics challenges science, identity theory challenges critical theory, pragmatism challenges formalism, and so on. Horace Fairlamb contends that philosophy's foundationist quest has usually been misconceived as a choice between a 'super-science' and theoretical anarchy. Through an examination of the history of foundationism, and detailed analysis of the work of leading theorists including Fish, Foucault, Derrida, Gadamer and Habermas, Dr Fairlamb argues for a less reductive and less arbitrary conception of knowledge and meaning. The result in this 1994 book is a sophisticated critique of contemporary theory with implications for philosophers as well as literary theorists, and an important contribution to the re-evaluation of theoretical discourse.
Read more- Major contribution to key area of controversy in contemporary theory
- Detailed analysis and criticism of work of leading contemporary critics
- No. 8 in prestigious Cambridge University Press series
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- Date Published: May 1994
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521450478
- length: 286 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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