TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norris,Christopher
TI  - Truth and the ethics of criticism
SN  - 0719044529
AV  - B809.3 .N67 1994
U1  - ARCH YNDC 190.9 N853T 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Manchester, New York, New York
PB  - Manchester University Press, Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Meaning (Philosophy)
KW  - Meaninglessness (Philosophy)
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -