What's wrong with postmodernism
Subtitle: critical theory and the ends of philosophy
By: Christopher Norris.
Series: Parallax; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Postmodernism; Literature -- Philosophy; Methodology
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.