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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Best Book Written in the Past 20 Years
Dwight Eddins has compiled and edited the quintessential volume of critical theory critique. The book superbly defends the non-deconstuctionist views of critical theory against the pejorative notions of Jacques Derrida, among others. This is the best book of its type to come out in the last twenty years.
Published on December 9, 1997
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3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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An unfortunate, uncritical restatement of old ideas
What might have been a helpful critique of limitations in current literary criticism is fatally flawed by a basic unfamiliarity with philosophy and literary theory. It's a rambling collection of familiar complaints, ending with an implicit suggestion that everything was better 40 years ago and we should just all come to our senses. A very sad documentation of the...
Published on July 27, 1998
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Book Written in the Past 20 Years,
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This review is from: The Emperor Redressed: Critiquing Critical Theory (Hardcover)
Dwight Eddins has compiled and edited the quintessential volume of critical theory critique. The book superbly defends the non-deconstuctionist views of critical theory against the pejorative notions of Jacques Derrida, among others. This is the best book of its type to come out in the last twenty years.
3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
An unfortunate, uncritical restatement of old ideas,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Emperor Redressed: Critiquing Critical Theory (Hardcover)
What might have been a helpful critique of limitations in current literary criticism is fatally flawed by a basic unfamiliarity with philosophy and literary theory. It's a rambling collection of familiar complaints, ending with an implicit suggestion that everything was better 40 years ago and we should just all come to our senses. A very sad documentation of the poverty of ideas in the moribund culture wars.
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The Emperor Redressed: Critiquing Critical Theory by Dwight Eddins (Hardcover - July 30, 1995)
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