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Affective fallacy
Anguish
Antithesis
Appearance and Reality
Arbitrariness
Author_Eugene Goodheart
Brute fact
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Classicism
Consciousness
Critical philosophy
Criticism
Critique
Deconstruction
Delusion
Disenchantment
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Essay
False consciousness
Falsity
Ideological criticism
Ideology
Insurgency
Irony
J. L. Austin
Jacques Derrida
John Barth
Karl Jaspers
Kenneth Burke
Literary theory
Literature
Metaphor
Metaphor and metonymy
Michael Polanyi
Mythologies (book)
Negative capability
New Atheism
New Criticism
Nominalism
Obscenity
Opportunism
Paul de Man
Perspectivism
Philistinism
Philosophical language
Philosophy
Poetry
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Pyrrhonism
Radical skepticism
Reality
Reality principle
Received view
Relativism
Renunciation
Roland Barthes
Romanticism
Secular humanism
Secularization
Skepticism
Social criticism
Sophistication
Subjectivism
Subjectivity
Søren Kierkegaard
The Death of the Author
The Heresy of Paraphrase
The Philosopher
Theory
Thought
Verisimilitude
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691600826
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Eugene Goodheart examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation, arguing that the targets of deconstructive suspicion are fundamental humanistic values. "[This book] is a fair-minded, generous critique of the deconstructionist theories of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and their followers. These writers have argued that language is so inherently slippery it can never express a speaker's intended meaning. The critic's role, in their view, is to explore the contradictions, subtexts, and metaphorical byways of works that may be most radically deceptive when they appear simple. Critics have castigated this language-centered skepticism as a form of nihilism geared to multiply numbingly similar readings of already familiar texts. Mr. Goodheart's objection is more subtle. He suggests that the philosophical orientation of deconstructive critics leads them to overemphasize the tricky propositional sense of words at the expense of the broader impact of literature--its power to wound, thrill, or transform us."--Morris Dickstein, The New York Times Book Review Originally published in 1991.
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