Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Fish's strong conventions: the mind's own world
- 2 Brave new words: postmodernism on epistemology
- 3 Theory and/or deconstruction: Derrida's slippage
- 4 Gadamer's universalism: the limits of hermeneutic authority
- 5 Critical politics: deconstruction for Americans
- 6 Foucault's microphysical politics: Big Brother is missing
- 7 Habermas' neo-formalism: theory as praxis
- 8 Critical theory and postmodern localism: rebels without a cause
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Fish's strong conventions: the mind's own world
- 2 Brave new words: postmodernism on epistemology
- 3 Theory and/or deconstruction: Derrida's slippage
- 4 Gadamer's universalism: the limits of hermeneutic authority
- 5 Critical politics: deconstruction for Americans
- 6 Foucault's microphysical politics: Big Brother is missing
- 7 Habermas' neo-formalism: theory as praxis
- 8 Critical theory and postmodern localism: rebels without a cause
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Critical ConditionsPostmodernity and the Question of Foundations, pp. xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994