Critical conditions : postmodernity and the question of foundations / Horace L. Fairlamb
1994, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #432093
ISBN: 0521450470
Physical description; xiii, 271 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Fish's strong conventions: the mind's own world -- Brave new words: postmodernism on epistemology -- Theory and/or deconstruction: Derrida's slippage -- Gadamer's universalism: the limits of hermeneutic authority -- Critical politics: deconstruction for Americans -- Foucault's microphysical politics: big brother is missing -- Habermas' neo-formalism: theory as praxis -- Critical theory and postmodern localism: rebels without a cause. Subjects; Postmodernism (Literature). Literature History and criticism Theory, etc. Knowledge, Theory of. Postmodernism.
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