This interdisciplinary book addresses the key questions posed by the postmodernist challenge: Is it possible to reflect and criticize in an age when every claim to truth is placed under suspicion? Are social critics contaminated by the same ideological distortions they identify in society? The te
Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction
β Scribed by Jeffrey T. Nealon
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 213
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Looking beyond its presumed demise, Nealon sees its insights as continuing to figure importantly in postmodernist critical debates.
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