Skeptical Engagements

by Frederick C. Crews

Book Overview

Eleven years ago, in Out of My System, the influential literary critic Frederick Crews served notice that his Freudian sympathies were being eroded. Now, in a closely reasoned and witty new book, he shows where that reappraisal took him and why he has come to regard himself as an opponent of all "self-validating" doctrines. The essays and occasional pieces that make up Skeptical Engagements are linked by a theme that Crews came to understand by trial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195039505
• ISBN13: 9780195039504
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.