Christopher Norris (1) (1947–)
Autore di Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
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Sull'Autore
Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is the author of more than thirty books on aspects of Philosophy, literature, critical theory and the history of ideas.
Opere di Christopher Norris
What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and… (1990) 81 copie
Spinoza & the Origins of Modern Critical Theory (The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory) (1991) 22 copie
Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics (Critical Realism:… (2000) 22 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 1947-11-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 40
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 1,104
- Popolarità
- #23,285
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 153
- Lingue
- 4
Much of the book is dedicated to providing an overview of the American reception of Derrida's work and its relation to main trends in American literary theory and criticism, specifically structuralism, New Criticism, and Marxist criticism. Norris clearly has his favourites among Derrida's American heirs: Paul de Man is repeatedly lauded for his rigour, while certain others come in for some minor censure for going too far into the sort of rhapsodic flights of imagination and whimsy that deconstruction can sometimes be taken to legitimate. But his criticism and praise avoid both fawning and the histrionics that deconstruction has sometimes inspired in its detractors.
If you are looking for a philosophical introduction to Derrida's work, this is not it, but that is clearly not its aim.… (altro)