{"product_id":"the-truth-about-postmodernism-isbn-9780631187189","title":"The Truth about Postmodernism","description":"This book was written with a view to sorting our some of the muddles and misreadings - especially misreadings of Kant - that have charaterized recent postmodernist and post-structuralist thought. For these issues have a relevance, as Norris argues, far beyond the academic enclaves of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism. Thus he makes large claims for the importance of getting Kant right on the relation between epistemology, ethics and aesthetics; for pursuing the Kantian question 'What is Enlightenment?' as raised in Foucault's late essays; or again, for recalling William Empson's spirited attempt to reassert the values of reason and truth against the orthodox 'lit crit' wisdom of his time. These are specialized concerns. But for better or worse it has been largely in the context of 'theory'- that capacious though ill-defined genre- that such issues have received their most scrutiny over the past two decades.  \u003cp\u003eAs its title suggests, \u003ci\u003eThe Truth About Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e disputes a good deal of what currently passes for advance theoretical wisdom. Above all it mounts a challenge to those fashionable doctrines - variants of the 'end-of-ideology' theme - that assimilate truth to some existing range of language-games, discourses, or in-place consensus beliefs. Norris's book will be welcomed for its clarity of style, its depth of philosophical engagement, and its refusal to endorse the more facile varieties of present-day textualist thought. It will also serve as a timely reminder that the 'politics of theory' cannot be practised in safe isolation from the politics (and ethics) of activist social concern.\u003c\/p\u003e Acknowledgements vi \u003cp\u003e1 The 'End of Ideology' Again: Old Themes for New Times 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 'What is Enlightenment': Foucault on Kant 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 For Truth in Criticism: William Empson and the Claims of Theory 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Kant Disfigured: Ethics, Deconstruction and the Textual Sublime 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Getting at Truth: Genealogy, Critique and Postmodern Scepticism 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 329\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChristopher Norris is the author of The Truth about Postmodernism, published by Wiley.   This book was written with a view to sorting our some of the muddles and misreadings - especially misreadings of Kant - that have charaterized recent postmodernist and post-structuralist thought. For these issues have a relevance, as Norris argues, far beyond the academic enclaves of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism. Thus he makes large claims for the importance of getting Kant right on the relation between epistemology, ethics and aesthetics; for pursuing the Kantian question 'What is Enlightenment?' as raised in Foucault's late essays; or again, for recalling William Empson's spirited attempt to reassert the values of reason and truth against the orthodox 'lit crit' wisdom of his time. These are specialized concerns. But for better or worse it has been largely in the context of 'theory'- that capacious though ill-defined genre- that such issues have received their most scrutiny over the past two decades.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs its title suggests, \u003ci\u003eThe Truth About Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e disputes a good deal of what currently passes for advance theoretical wisdom. Above all it mounts a challenge to those fashionable doctrines - variants of the 'end-of-ideology' theme - that assimilate truth to some existing range of language-games, discourses, or in-place consensus beliefs. Norris's book will be welcomed for its clarity of style, its depth of philosophical engagement, and its refusal to endorse the more facile varieties of present-day textualist thought. It will also serve as a timely reminder that the 'politics of theory' cannot be practised in safe isolation from the politics (and ethics) of activist social concern.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990358147301,"sku":"NP9780631187189","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631187189.jpg?v=1761787498","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-truth-about-postmodernism-isbn-9780631187189","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}