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

The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature. A Report on Half-Knowledge.

Paperback. Zustand: Gut. XI, 199 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht berieben, Hinterdeckel leicht verschmutzt, Bleistiftanmerkung auf Schmutztitel, sonst guter Zustand und innen sehr sauber / slightly rubbed, back cover slightly soiled, pencil annotation on half title, otherwise good condition and inside very clean. - This brilliantly argued book is an entirely fresh critique of the postmodern turn in the academy. Surveying a vast range of contemporary thinking, David Simpson sets his sights on the most 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 in philosophy, history, anthropology, and other disciplines have confined themselves to a traditionaland limitedway of looking at the world. Simpson is the first to uncover the largely unrecognized ancestry of the key paradigms and sensibilities of the academic postmoderntracing their roots to nineteenth-century Romanticism and to more general traditions of literature. He warns scholars against mistaking the migration of ideas from one discipline to another for a radically new response to the postmodern age. 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." A provocative guide to today's scholarly scene, this book is sure to engender debate about the future of theory and to encourage new approaches to the study of the postmodern world. / Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The Academic Postmodern? One The Return of the Storyteller and the Circulation of "Literature" Two Anecdotes and Conversations: The Method of Postmodernity Three Speaking Personally: The Culture of Autobiography in the Postmodern Four Feminisms and Feminizations in the Postmodern Five Localism, Local Knowledge, and Literary Criticism Six Romanticism and Localism Seven The Urge for Solutions and the Relief of Fiction Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780226759500 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 286. Artikel-Nr. 1184497

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