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Truth and the ethics of criticism / Christopher Norris.

By: Norris, Christopher
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press, [1994]Distributor: New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's PressCopyright date: ©1994Description: 148 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0719044537 (pbk.); 0719044529 (hardback)Subject(s): Critical theory | Postmodernism | Meaning (Philosophy) | Meaninglessness (Philosophy)DDC classification: 190/.9/04 LOC classification: B809.3 | .N67 1994Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-145) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the retreat from high theory -- Science, ideology, and 'local knowledge' -- Knowledge and human interests: Habermas, Lyotard, Foucault -- Textuality, difference, and cultural otherness -- Ethics and alterity: Derrida on Levinas -- 'The dream of a purely heterological thought...' -- Textual encounters: the prison-house of 'discourse' -- Scepticism and Enlightenment: Kristeva contra post-structuralism -- Persons, not subjects: community and diference -- Of truth and falsehood in an extra-textual sense -- Postscript: 'the undefined work of freedom'-Foucault and
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange B809.3 .N67 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182800958916

Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-145) and index.

Introduction: the retreat from high theory -- Science, ideology, and 'local knowledge' -- Knowledge and human interests: Habermas, Lyotard, Foucault -- Textuality, difference, and cultural otherness -- Ethics and alterity: Derrida on Levinas -- 'The dream of a purely heterological thought...' -- Textual encounters: the prison-house of 'discourse' -- Scepticism and Enlightenment: Kristeva contra post-structuralism -- Persons, not subjects: community and diference -- Of truth and falsehood in an extra-textual sense -- Postscript: 'the undefined work of freedom'-Foucault and

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