The Skeptic Disposition: Deconstruction, Ideology, and Other Matters

by Eugene Goodheart

Book Overview

Eugene Goodheart examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation, arguing that the targets of deconstructive suspicion are fundamental humanistic values. "[This book] is a fair-minded, generous critique of the deconstructionist theories of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and their followers. These writers have argued that language is so inherently slippery it can never express a speaker's intended...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691600821
• ISBN13: 9780691600826
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"