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Critical Conditions - Postmodernity and the Question of Foundations (Hardcover)
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Critical Conditions - Postmodernity and the Question of Foundations (Hardcover)
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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.
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