What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy

by Christopher Norris

Book Overview

In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the postmodern-pragmatist malaise of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulse--an enlightened or emancipatory interest--in thinkers like Derrida, de Man, Bhaskar, and Habermas. Offering a provocative reassessment of Derrida's influence on modern thinking, Norris attempts to sever the tie between deconstruction and American literary critics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801841372
• ISBN13: 9780801841378
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"