What's Wrong with Postmodernism? Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy

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 provocative reassessment of Derrida's influence on modern thinking, Norris attempts to sever the tie between deconstruction and American literary critics who, he argues, favor endless, playful, polysemic interpretation at the expense of systematic argument.

Softcover. English. Publisher: John Hopkins. 1992.In good condition. Book No: 4002907