Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity'
1st Edition
Published on 3. August 2001
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-415-92955-4 (ISBN)
Description
Through a close engagement with some key thinkers, Norris argues that deconstruction is part of the "unfinished project of modernity." a project whose interest and values it upholds by continuing to question them in a spirit of enlightened self-critical inquiry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-92955-4 (9780415929554)
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Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. His many publications include Deconstruction: Theory and Practice (Routledge 1991), Jacques Derrida, The Truth AboutPostmodernism, New Idols of the Cave, Resources ofRealism, Against Relativism, and Quantum Theory and theFlight from Realism, (Routledge 2000).
Content
Introduction -- Chapter 1 Deconstruction versus Postmodernism: epistemology, ethics, aesthetics -- Chapter 2 Postmodern Ethics and the Trouble with Relativism -- Chapter 3 Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity' -- Chapter 4 Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy of Science -- Chapter 5 'The Idea of the University': some interdisciplinary soundings -- Chapter 6 Ethics, Autonomy and Self-Invention: debating Foucault -- Chapter 7 'The Night in which All Cows are Black': Paul de Man, 'mere reading' and indifference to philosophy -- Chapter 8 Conflict, Compromise or Complementarity: ideas of science in modern literary theory -- Chapter 9 Sexed Equations and Vexed Physicists: the 'two cultures' revisited -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.