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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 June 2011
      26 May 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511552762
      9780521450478
      9780521456654
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552762
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 286 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.359kg, 286 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Literature, Culture, Theory (8)
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    Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Literature, Culture, Theory (8)
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    The postmodern debate has been heavily influenced by often contradictory conclusions about the foundations of knowledge: hermeneutics challenges epistemology, politics challenges science, identity theory challenges critical theory, pragmatism challenges formalism, and so on. Horace Fairlamb contends that philosophy's foundationist quest has usually been misconceived as a choice between a 'super-science' and theoretical anarchy. Through an examination of the history of foundationism, and detailed analysis of the work of leading theorists including Fish, Foucault, Derrida, Gadamer and Habermas, Dr Fairlamb argues for a less reductive and less arbitrary conception of knowledge and meaning. The result in this 1994 book is a sophisticated critique of contemporary theory with implications for philosophers as well as literary theorists, and an important contribution to the re-evaluation of theoretical discourse.

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