Literary theory and the claims of history : postmodernism, objectivity, multicultural politics /
Drawing on detailed analyses of reference, interpretation, and the nature value, Satya P. Mohanty defends a "postpositivist realist" conception of objectivity as a legitimate ideal of all inquiry. He outlines a realist theory of social identity and multicultural politics, showing why radic...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
1997.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2n7jch |
Table of Contents:
- Paul de Man, language, and the politics of meaning
- Reference and the social basis of language
- The limits of Althusser's poststructuralist Marxism
- Jameson's Marxist hermeneutics and the need for an adequate epistemology
- Political criticism and the challenge of otherness
- On situating objective knowledge
- Identity, multiculturalism, justice.