Author: | M. H. Abrams, Frederick Crews, Richard Levin, Gary Saul Morson, Nina Baym, Ihab Hassan, David Lehman, Paisley Livingston, John R. Searle | ISBN: | 9780817387914 |
Publisher: | University of Alabama Press | Publication: | August 19, 2014 |
Imprint: | University Alabama Press | Language: | English |
Author: | M. H. Abrams, Frederick Crews, Richard Levin, Gary Saul Morson, Nina Baym, Ihab Hassan, David Lehman, Paisley Livingston, John R. Searle |
ISBN: | 9780817387914 |
Publisher: | University of Alabama Press |
Publication: | August 19, 2014 |
Imprint: | University Alabama Press |
Language: | English |
There have been signs now, for some time, that poststructuralist hegemony is declining. This book helps us to understand the theoretical flaws that make this decline inevitable.
The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy, and of the assumptions involved therin, by a group of our most prominent scholars. These scholars were charged with examining the truth-value, methodology, practice, and humanistic status of poststructuralist theories and with speculating on what their conclusions portend for the future of theory. They provide cogent evidence that the poststructuralist heyday has passed.
There have been signs now, for some time, that poststructuralist hegemony is declining. This book helps us to understand the theoretical flaws that make this decline inevitable.
The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy, and of the assumptions involved therin, by a group of our most prominent scholars. These scholars were charged with examining the truth-value, methodology, practice, and humanistic status of poststructuralist theories and with speculating on what their conclusions portend for the future of theory. They provide cogent evidence that the poststructuralist heyday has passed.