Disfigurations: Discourse/Critique/Ethics

by Ian Angus

Book Overview

There has been, over the last decades, a deep crisis in the models which, for a long time, have been central metaphors governing thought and research in the social sciences. The main symptom in this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859842771
• ISBN13: 9781859842775
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Bringing Discourse Back Home

This book consists of a reformulation of poststructuralist theory allowing not only for difference - as has generally been par for the course in such discourse - but also allowing for commonality through the medium of the phenomenological critique of Heidegger, Husserl and others. As the introduction states, "debates about postmodernity have...tended to be polarized either between totality or plurality. This description avoids such a counterposing and consequently discovers a new open space for theoretical discourse." In short, Angus points the way beyond "the rebound from universality" of the late twentieth century without advocating a return to it either; it is the contours of this paradox itself that are explored in the pages of this very interesting book.