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Truth about Postmodernism (Paperback)
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This book was written with a view to sorting our some of the
muddles and misreadings -- especially misreadings of Kant -- that
have charaterized recent postmodernist and post--structuralist
thought. For these issues have a relevance, as Norris argues, far
beyond the academic enclaves of philosophy, literary theory, and
cultural criticism. Thus he makes large claims for the importance
of getting Kant right on the relation between epistemology, ethics
and aesthetics; for pursuing the Kantian question a What is
Enlightenment?a as raised in Foucaulta s late essays; or again, for
recalling William Empsona s spirited attempt to reassert the values
of reason and truth against the orthodox a lit crita wisdom of his
time. These are specialized concerns. But for better or worse it
has been largely in the context of a theorya -- that capacious
though ill--defined genre-- that such issues have received their
most scrutiny over the past two decades. As its title suggests, The
Truth About Postmodernism disputes a good deal of what currently
passes for advance theoretical wisdom. Above all it mounts a
challenge to those fashionable doctrines -- variants of the a
end--of--ideologya theme -- that assimilate truth to some existing
range of language--games, discourses, or in--place consensus
beliefs. Norrisa s book will be welcomed for its clarity of style,
its depth of philosophical engagement, and its refusal to endorse
the more facile varieties of present--day textualist thought. It
will also serve as a timely reminder that the a politics of theorya
cannot be practised in safe isolation from the politics (and
ethics) of activist social concern.
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