Contingency Blues: The Search for Foundations in American Criticism

by Paul Jay

From Emerson to Rorty, American criticism has grappled in one way or another with the problem of modernity--specifically, how to determine critical and cultural standards in a world where every position seems the product of an interpretation. Part intellectual history, part cultural critique, this provocative book is an effort to shake American thought out of the grip of the nineteenth century--and out of its contingency blues.
Paul Jay focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299154149
• ISBN13: 9780299154141
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"