The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature: A Report on Half-Knowledge - Tapa blanda

Simpson, David

 
9780226759500: The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature: A Report on Half-Knowledge
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ISBN 10: 0226759504 ISBN 13: 9780226759500
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1995

Sinopsis

This critique of the postmodern turn discusses the distinctive aspects of postmodern scholarship: the pervasiveness of the literary and the flight from grand theory to local knowledge. Simpson examines defining features of postmodern thought - storytelling, autobiography, anecdote and localism - and traces their unacknowledged roots in literature and literary criticism. Considering such examples as the conversational turn in philosophy led by Richard Rorty and the anecdotal qualities of the New Historicism, he argues that much of contemporary scholarship is literary in its terms, methods, and assumptions about knowledge; in their often unconscious adoption of literary approaches, scholars have a limited way of looking at the world. He warns scholars against mistaking the migration of ideas from one discipline to another for a radically new response to the postmodern age. In his assessment of the academic postmodern enterprise, Simpson recognizes that both the literary turn and the emphasis on local, subjective voices have done much to enrich knowledge. But he also identifies the danger in abandoning synthetic knowledge to particular truths, cautioning that "we would be foolish to pretend that little narratives are true alternatives to grand ones, rather than chips off a larger block whose shape we can no longer see because we are not looking."

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David Simpson is the G. B. Needham Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

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University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1995
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0226759504
ISBN 13 
9780226759500
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