Assertion: humanistic discipline | /r/HasProperty | self
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text: Literary criticism, it might seem, faces almost total disintegration; the welter of competing 'approaches' threatens irresoluble fragmentation in methodology, the attack on the literary canon undermines the very subject-matter of literary education (without canonical works there is no literature), and, at a deeper level, 'deconstructionists' seek to erode the core concepts at the very foundations of any humanistic discipline : self, autonomy, meaning, objectivity, truth, world.