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This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. On the one hand, deconstruction brings a vigilant awareness of the figural and narrative tropes that make up the discourse of philosophic reason. On the other it insists that argumentative rigour cannot be divorced from the kind of close reading that has come to characterize literary theory in its more advanced or speculative forms. This present-day ?contest of faculties? has large implications for philosophers and critics, many of whom will welcome the reissue of such a clear-headed statement of the impact of deconstruction.
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Norris, the author of Deconstruction: theory and practice ( LJ 11/1/82), is good at mapping the territory opened up by Derrida and de Man. He traces affinities with earlier thinkers (Descartes, Kant, Husserl) and situates issues in relation to the analytic tradition of Frege, Quine, Putnam, and Davidson. Richard Rorty also has this kind of breadth, but his approach (well assessed here) is often reductive. Norris shrewdly identifies the "vulgar-deconstructionist" view that "all concepts come down to metaphors at root" as the straw man that diverts us from the rigor and patience of the best deconstructionist analyses. He also deals thoughtfully with the interpenetration of philosophical and literary categories in recent criticism. A useful, provocative guide. Alexander Gelley, English & Comparative Literature Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine
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- PublisherRoutledge
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- ISBN 10 0416399401
- ISBN 13 9780416399400
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