Nihilism, Relativism, and Literary Theory

NOW THAT THE TURBULENT EMERGENCE of the various poststructuralist kinds of has subsided into the past, we can assess these theories with some historical perspective. Few would be likely to dispute that theory has a been a major in the history of criticism, but as with all such events, significance changes as meanings are rewritten over time. We can begin to ask now, just how important, and indeed what kind of an intellectual event has been? Of course, we need even more temporal distance than we now have to make a solid judgment, but we can perhaps turn to other twentieth-century histories for help. For instance, in looking back at the history of in the last few decades, we can readily find interesting similarities to the history of physics in the first half of the century, similarities that can help us understand what has happened in the humanities

Epistemology · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Literary theory · Nihilism · Relativism · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Philosophy

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