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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Autor principal: Mohanty, Satya P. (Satya Prakash), 1954-
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 1997.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2n7jch
Sumário:
  • 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.