21.5 x 13.5cms 270pp very good+ paperback & cover The chapters cover the thought of Jacques Derrida; Jacques Lacan Jean-Francois LyotardMichel Foucault and intersubjectivity & the logic of disintegration.

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Title: Logics Of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought & The Claims Of Critical Theory
Publisher: London Verso 1988
Publication Date: 1987
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0860918130
ISBN 13: 9780860918134
Binding: Soft cover

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Over the last two decades, contemporary French philosophy has exercised a powerful influence on intellectual life, across both Europe and America. Post-structuralist strategies and concepts have played an important role in many forms of social, cultural and aesthetic analysis, particularly on the Left. Despite the widespread reception, however, there has still been comparatively little analysis of the basic philosophical assumptions of post-structuralism, or of the compatibility of many of its central tenets with the progressive political orientations with which it is frequently associated.

In this book, Peter Dews seeks to remedy this situation by setting post-structuralist thought in relation to another, more explicitly critical, tradition in the philosophical analysis of modernity – that of the Frankfurt School, from Adorno to Habermas. Logics of Disintegration will be of interest to readers across a wide range of disciplines, from literary criticism to social theory, which have felt the impact of post-structuralism – and to anyone who wishes to reach a balanced assessment of one of the most influential intellectual currents of our time.

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Peter Dews is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He has published widely on contemporary French and German thought, and is the author of The Limits of Disenchantment.

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