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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778525303321

Autore

Norris Christopher

Titolo

The contest of faculties [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy and theory after deconstruction / / Christopher Norris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-99901-9

1-282-97404-1

9786612974045

0-203-85564-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

801.95

Soggetti

Deconstruction

Narration (Rhetoric)

Literature - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: philosophy, theory and the 'contest of faculties'; 1 Narrative theory or theory-as-narrative: the politics of 'post-modern' reason; 2 Sense, reference and logic: a critique of post-structuralist theory; 3 Some versions of rhetoric: Empson and de Man; 4 Transcendent fictions: imaginary discourse in Descartes and Husserl; 5 Aesthetics and politics: reading Roger Scruton; 6 Philosophy as a kind of narrative: Rorty on post-modern liberal culture; 7 Suspended sentences: textual theory and the Law

8 On not going relativist (where it counts): deconstruction and 'Convention T'9 Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. On the one hand, deconstruction brings a vigilant awareness of the figural and narrative tropes that make up the discourse of philosophic reason. On the other it insists that argumentative rigour cannot be divorced from the kind of close reading that has come to characterize literary theory in its more advanced or speculative forms.



This present-day 'contest of faculties' has large implications for philosophers and critics, many o