Fleeing the universal : the critique of post-rational criticism - Rapp, Carl, 1946- (Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1998)
Introduction: What is Post-Rational Criticism? 1 -- 1. The Transcendentalist Impulse in the Projects of Contemporary Criticism 25 -- 2. Hegel's Concept of the Dissolution of Art 67 -- 3. William Carlos Williams and the Art of Infinite Spirituality 93 -- 4. The Metaphysics of Deconstruction 101 -- 5. Ideology and the New Pragmatism 117 -- 6. The Self-Contradictions of Pragmatism 137 -- 7. Postmodern Fantasies of Pluralism 155 -- 8. The Crisis of Reason in Contemporary Thought 177 -- 9. Concrete History or Mere Hologram?: Hegel versus the New Historicism 211 -- 10. Santayana's Critique of Transcendentalism 231 -- 11. Hegel and Santayana on the Nature of Philosophy 245 -- Appendix Theses for the Critique of the Post-Rational Critique of Reason 271.
Some chapters are revisions of articles previously published in various sources from 1987 to 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index.
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Keywords: Critical theory; Théorie critique; critical theories (dialectical critiques); critical theory (sociological concept); PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Critical Theory; PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Existentialism; PHILOSOPHY -- Criticism; Critical theory; Philosophy & Religion; Philosophy; Controversial literature