1st Edition
Contest of Faculties (Routledge Revivals) Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction
By Christopher Norris
Copyright 1985
260 Pages
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Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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This Routledge Revival , first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. On the one hand, deconstruction brings a vigilant awareness of the figural and narrative tropes that make up the discourse of philosophic reason. On the other it insists that argumentative rigour cannot be divorced from the kind of close... Read more
1. Narrative Theory or Theory-As-Narrative: The Politics of ‘Post-Modern’ Reason 2. Sense, Reference and Logic: A Critique of Post-Structuralist Theory 3. Some Versions of Rhetoric: Empson and De Man 4. Transcendent Fictions: Imaginary Discourse in Descartes and Husserl 5. Aesthetics and Politics: Reading Roger Scruton 6. Philosophy as a Kind of Narrative: Rorty on Post-Modern Liberal Culture 7. Suspended Sentences: Textual Theory and the Law 8. On Not Going Relativist (Where it Counts): Deconstruction and ‘Convention T’ 9. Conclusion.
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