Constructive criticism : the human sciences in the age of theory / edited by Martin Kreiswirth and Thomas Carmichael.

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Book
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English
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Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1995.
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viii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Papers presented at a conference entitled The human sciences in the age of theory, held in the spring 1993 and organized by the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Martin Kreiswirth and Thomas Carmichael
    • 'The undefined work of freedom' : on Foucault and philosophy / Christopher Norris
    • Radical phenomenology : Hegel and the (dis)placement of art / Tilottama Rajan
    • Habermas and the ethnocentric discourse of modernity / Victor Li
    • Tell me a story : the narrativist turn in the human sciences / Martin Kreiswirth
    • Getting into theory / Diane Elam
    • Novels as theories in a liberal society / Gary Wihl
    • The ends of man : AIDS, Kant and Derrida / Richard Dellamora
    • Interdisciplinary possibilities : opera and medicine? / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
    • Dance criticism : feminism, theory, and choreography / Janet Wolff
    • For a heteronomous cultural politics : the university, culture, and the state / Bill Readings
    • A way ahead for the human sciences : Paul Ricoeur's Lectures on ideology and utopia / L.M. Findlay
    • Postmodernism and cultural studies : on the utopianization of heterotopia / John Fekete.
    Other title(s)
    Human sciences in the age of theory
    ISBN
    • 0802006752 ((bound ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780802006752 ((bound ; : alk. paper))
    • 0802076300 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780802076304 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    95184859
    OCLC
    32088233
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