Untheory
Alexander Nehamas, 22 May 1986
Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction
by Christopher Norris.
Methuen, 247 pp., £16, November 1985,0 416 39939 8 Show More
by Christopher Norris.
Methuen, 247 pp., £16, November 1985,
Philosophical Profiles
by Richard Bernstein.
Polity, 313 pp., £25, January 1986,0 7456 0226 6 Show More
by Richard Bernstein.
Polity, 313 pp., £25, January 1986,
Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism
edited by W.J.T. Mitchell.
Chicago, 146 pp., £12.75, November 1985,0 226 53226 7 Show More
edited by W.J.T. Mitchell.
Chicago, 146 pp., £12.75, November 1985,
“... is the position Norris attributes to ‘soft’ or ‘non-rigorous’ deconstructive critics like Geoffrey Hartman and J. Hillis Miller, who rest content with pointing out ‘that all texts are figural’ – rhetorical or fictional – ‘through and through, whatever their self-professed logical status.’ Richard Rorty, who identifies philosophy ... ”