Skeptic Disposition

Deconstruction, Ideology, and Other Matters

Autor: Eugene Goodheart

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Princeton University Press

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Eugene Goodheart examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over...

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Autor

Eugene Goodheart

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2014

strony

222

EAN

9780691600826

ISBN

0691600821

Enbook ID

04642199

Wydawca

Princeton University Press

Waga

312

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 12

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Eugene Goodheart examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation, arguing that the targets of deconstructive suspicion are fundamental humanistic values. "[This book] is a fair-minded, generous critique of the deconstructionist theories of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and their followers. These writers have argued that language is so inherently slippery it can never express a speaker's intended meaning. The critic's role, in their view, is to explore the contradictions, subtexts, and metaphorical byways of works that may be most radically deceptive when they appear simple. Critics have castigated this language-centered skepticism as a form of nihilism geared to multiply numbingly similar readings of already familiar texts. Mr. Goodheart's objection is more subtle. He suggests that the philosophical orientation of deconstructive critics leads them to overemphasize the tricky propositional sense of words at the expense of the broader impact of literature--its power to wound, thrill, or transform us."--Morris Dickstein, The New York Times Book Review Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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