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Truth and the ethics of criticism / Christopher Norris.
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TextPublication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1994.Description: 148 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0719044529
- 9780719044526
- 0719044537 (pbk.)
- 9780719044533 (pbk.)
- ARCH YNDC 190.9 N853T
- B809.3 .N67 1994
Contents:
Summary: This text is a reply to some of the more doctrinaire beliefs that pass for "radical" thinking. For the most part, Norris argues, these ideas are based on a false understanding of crucial episodes in their own pre-history.
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 difference --- Of truth and falsehood in an extra-textual sense --- Postscript: 'the undefined work of freedom'-Foucault and.
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| ARCH YNDC 190.9 L459F Fifty key contemporary thinkers : from structuralism to postmodernity / | ARCH YNDC 190.9 M478H A history of Western philosophy / | ARCH YNDC 190.9 M478H A History of western philosophy | ARCH YNDC 190.9 N853T Truth and the ethics of criticism / | ARCH YNDC 190.9 S355C The Cambridge history of Renaissance philosophy / | ARCH YNDC 190.9 S713R The Rise of modern philosophy : the tension between the new and traditional philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz / | ARCH YNDC 190.92 H217P The collected dialogues of Plato, including the letters. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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 difference --- Of truth and falsehood in an extra-textual sense --- Postscript: 'the undefined work of freedom'-Foucault and.
This text is a reply to some of the more doctrinaire beliefs that pass for "radical" thinking. For the most part, Norris argues, these ideas are based on a false understanding of crucial episodes in their own pre-history.
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