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87 produkter
Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals)
Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology
Häftad, 2010
1092 kr
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Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that offers …
Adorno's Shadow
A Lasting Legacy
Av Al¿b¿ta Dy¿ková, Stella Gaon m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
331 kr
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Resources of Realism
Prospects for ‘Post-Analytic’ Philosophy
Inbunden, 1997
1371 kr
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This book is concerned chiefly with issues in epistemology, philosophical semantics, and philosophy of science. It defends a causal-realist approach to theories and explanations in the natural sciences and a truth-based propositional semantics for natural language derived from various sources, …
Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism
Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics
Häftad, 2000
739 kr
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This book is a critical introduction to the long-standing debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics and the problems it has posed for physicists and philosophers from Einstein to the present. Quantum theory has been a major infulence on postmodernism, and presents …
Deconstruction
Theory and Practice
Inbunden, 2002
2466 kr
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Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The volume focuses on the works of Jacques Derrida …
Deconstruction
Theory and Practice
Häftad, 2002
614 kr
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Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The volume focuses on the works of Jacques Derrida …
Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism
Häftad, 2003
1481 kr
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In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. Through a close critical reading he shows how they fail to make adequate sense on any rational, consistent, and scientifically-informed survey of …
Contest of Faculties (Routledge Revivals)
Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction
Inbunden, 2009
3643 kr
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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. …
Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals)
Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy
Inbunden, 2010
3643 kr
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What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published in 1983, Christopher Norris’ book was the first to explore such questions in the context of …
Contest of Faculties (Routledge Revivals)
Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction
Häftad, 2009
1092 kr
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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. …
Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals)
Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy
Häftad, 2010
1092 kr
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What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published in 1983, Christopher Norris’ book was the first to explore such questions in the context of …
Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals)
Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology
Inbunden, 2010
3643 kr
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Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that offers …
Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity'
Häftad, 2000
1478 kr
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Deconstruction and postmodernism have been misunderstood. In this provocative book, Christopher Norris challenges the widespread idea of deconstruction as merely an offshoot of the various trends and cultural phenomena grouped under the label of "postmodernism". Through an analysis of the key …
William Empson
The Critical Achievement
Av Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp
Häftad, 2009
804 kr
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William Empson (1906-84) was one of the twentieth century's most distinctive critical voices, and left a profound mark upon Anglo-American literary culture. Published in 1993, this book was the first full study of Empson's literary criticism in its various aspects, taking account of recent …
Post-structuralist Readings of English Poetry
Av Richard Machin, Christopher Norris m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
767 kr
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A group of leading critics have been invited to offer close readings of well-known poetic texts from the established canon of English literature. The volume is organised historically, with texts ranging from the Renaissance, Augustan and Romantic periods through to the twentieth century. All the …
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 9, Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Av Christa Knellwolf, Christopher Norris
Häftad, 2006
730 kr
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This ninth volume in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism presents a wide-ranging survey of developments in literary criticism and theory during the last century. Drawing on the combined expertise of a large team of specialist scholars, it offers an authoritative account of the various …
William Empson
The Critical Achievement
Av Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp
Inbunden, 1993
1797 kr
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William Empson (1906-84) was one of the twentieth century's most distinctive critical voices, and left a profound mark upon Anglo-American literary culture. Published in 1993, this book was the first full study of Empson's literary criticism in its various aspects, taking account of recent …
Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory
Häftad, 1990
638 kr
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This book offers a detailed account of Spinoza's influence on various schools of present-day critical thought. That influence extends from Althusserian Marxism to hermeneutics, deconstruction, narrative poetics, new historicism, and the unclassifiable writings of a thinker like Giles Deleuze. The …
Truth about Postmodernism
Häftad, 1993
555 kr
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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, …
Against Relativism
Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory
Häftad, 1997
555 kr
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This book offers a vigorous and constructive challenge to relativism by examining a wide range of anti-realist theories, and in response offering a variety of arguments amounting to a strong defence of critical realism in the natural and social sciences.
Truth Matters
Realism, Anti-Realism and Response-Dependence
Häftad, 2005
386 kr
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Truth Matters is the first full-length introduction to response-dependence, a topic that has become a main focus of interest for philosophers across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas.The response-dependence claim, in brief, is to provide a 'third way' between the realist (or …
Philosophy Outside-In
A Critique of Academic Reason
Inbunden, 2013
1397 kr
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Christopher Norris raises some basic questions about the way that analytic philosophy has been conducted over the past 25 years. In doing so, he offers an alternative to what he sees as an over-specialisation of a lot of recent academic work. Arguing that analytic philosophy has led to a narrowing …
What's Wrong with Postmodernism?
Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy
Häftad, 1998
577 kr
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In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the "postmodern-pragmatist malaise" of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulse-an "enlightened or emancipatory interest"-in thinkers like Derrida, de Man, Bhaskar, and Habermas. Offering a …
Epistemology: Key Concepts in Philosophy
Häftad, 2005
518 kr
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Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and topics encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with little prior knowledge of the subject, these books open up a whole range of …
On Truth and Meaning
Language, Logic and the Grounds of Belief
Häftad, 2006
632 kr
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As one of the world's leading and most highly-acclaimed contemporary theorists, Christopher Norris has spent much of the last twenty years trying to promote better relations and mutual understanding between the divisive analytic and continental philosophical traditions. In his new book, "On Truth …
Platonism, Music and the Listener's Share
Inbunden, 2006
2423 kr
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What is a musical work? What are its identity-conditions and the standards (if any) that they set for a competent, intelligent, and musically perceptive act of performance or audition? Should the work-concept henceforth be dissolved as some New Musicologists would have it into the various, …
Fiction, Philosophy and Literary Theory
Will the Real Saul Kripke Please Stand Up?
Inbunden, 2007
2786 kr
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This book brings together three main topics - deconstruction, philosophy of language, and literary theory - that have figured centrally in Christopher Norris' work over the past two decades. It offers a refreshingly clear and vigorous statement of his views as to how 'theory' might profit from a …
Fiction, Philosophy and Literary Theory
Will the Real Saul Kripke Please Stand Up?
Häftad, 2007
727 kr
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This book brings together three main topics - deconstruction, philosophy of language, and literary theory - that have figured centrally in Christopher Norris's work over the past two decades. It offers a refreshingly clear and vigorous statement of his views as to how 'theory' might profit from a …
Badiou's 'Being and Event'
A Reader's Guide
Inbunden, 2009
1570 kr
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Badiou is with doubt the most influential philosopher working in Europe today - this book will provide the first detailed introduction to "Being and Event", a hugely important, but challenging book. Alain Badiou's "Being and Event" is the most original and significant work of French philosophy to …
