Deconstruction has been widely and damagingly misunderstood. In this provocative new book, Christopher Norris challenges the prevalent idea that deconstruction is merely a more specialized philosophical offshoot of these various trends and cultural fashions grouped under the label of 'postmodernism'
Deconstruction and the βUnfinished Project of Modernity'
β Scribed by Christopher Norris
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 249
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Deconstruction versus Postmodernism: epistemology, ethics, aesthetics
Chapter 2 Postmodern Ethics and the Trouble with Relativism
Chapter 3 Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity'
Chapter 4 Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy of Science
Chapter 5 'The Idea of the University': some interdisciplinary soundings
Chapter 6 Ethics, Autonomy and Self-Invention: debating Foucault
Chapter 7 'The Night in which All Cows are Black': Paul de Man, 'mere reading' and indifference to philosophy
Chapter 8 Conflict, Compromise or Complementarity: ideas of science in modern literary theory
Chapter 9 Sexed Equations and Vexed Physicists: the 'two cultures' revisited
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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