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Theory and Practice
While in no way oversimplifying its complexity or glossing over the challenges it presents, Norris's book sets out to make deconstruction more accessi...
Norris demonstrates that Derrida's texts should be understood more as philosophy than as literature. He explains the position of Derrida's writing wit...
Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy
What's Wrong with Postmodernism collects seven of Christopher Norris's reviews of recent work in literary theory. Throughout, Norris appears to assume...
Integrating Science and Therapy
Back Stability: Integrating Science and Therapy, Second Edition aids practitioners in recognizing and managing back conditions using proven clinical a...
Through a close engagement with some key thinkers, Norris argues that deconstruction is part of the "unfinished project of modernity." a project whose...
Poems and Verse-Essays
In this latest collection of poems and verse-essays, Christopher Norris revisits many of the topics for which he is best known as a philosopher, liter...
Verse-Music and the Ring of Ideas
The poetry of ideas, a long neglected genre, has now found a vigorous and resourceful champion in Christopher Norris. Hitherto best known as philosoph...
On the Limits of Anti-realism
This book offers a broad-based critical survey of recent anti-realist arguments in the philosophy of science, cultural theory, hermeneutics, the socio...
Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy
What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current decon...
Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory
This book offers a vigorous and constructive challenge to relativism by examining a wide range of anti-realist theories, and in response offering a va...
When the Jebusites built Jerusalem around 2000 BC, it seems improbable that they ever envisioned the impact this city would have on the history and de...
Postmodernism, Intellectuals & the Gulf War
"It is in response to Baudrillard and other proponents of the so-called postmodern condition that Christopher Norris has written this extended essay....
Realism, Anti-Realism and Response-Dependence
Truth Matters is the first full-length introduction to response-dependence, a topic that has become a main focus of interest for philosophers across a...
Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics
This book is a critical introduction to the long-standing debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics and the problems it has po...
Language, Logic and the Grounds of Belief
Christopher Norris presents a wide-ranging and distinctively angled perspective on many of the most challenging topics in current philosophical debate...
In this path-breaking study Christopher Norris proposes a transformed understanding of the much-exaggerated differences between analytic and continent...
Following the publication of Seven Types of Ambiguity in 1930 William Empson was quickly recognised as a critic of great originality and unique creati...
This text is a reply to some of the more doctrinaire beliefs that pass for "radical" thinking. For the most part, Norris argues, these ideas are based...
A Critique of Academic Reason
Christopher Norris raises some basic questions about the way that analytic philosophy has been conducted over the past 25 years. In doing so, he offer...
Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology
Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories a...
What is a musical work? What are its identity-conditions and the standards (if any) that they set for a competent, intelligent, and musically percepti...
This new edition of a key, accessible text to the work of the most influential psychoanalytic and literary critic alive today includes a new introduct...
Naturalism, Reason and the Venture of Thought
Re-Thinking the Cogito seeks to combine a strongly naturalistic with a distinctively rationalist perspective on some nowadays much-discussed issues in...
Diagnosis and Management
A complete revision of this highly successful practical handbook, Sports Injuries: diagnosis and management now includes: New chapters on exercise the...
Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction
This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and referen...
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Norris provides a comprehensive documentation of Deconstruction theory and its root in modern literature, while Benjamin produces a thorough and well ...
Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and topics encountered in the study of phil...
Verse-Essays in Creative Criticism
This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively th...
Will the Real Saul Kripke Please Stand Up?
Bringing together three main topics - deconstruction, philosophy of language and literary theory - Christopher Norris offers a clear and vigorous stat...
Diagnosis and Management for Physiotherapists
This handy pocketbook has a fresh colorful design, with color line drawings used throughout detailing over 380 separate points. Color tabs are used to...
Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism
Truth, Christopher Norris reminds us, is very much out of fashion at the moment - whether at the hands of politicians, media pundits, or purveyors of ...
Realism, Reason and the Uses of Uncertainty
This study examines Hilary Putnam's work in epistemology, philosophy of science and mathematics, philosophical logic and semantics and cognitive psych...
A practical handbook for sports participants and recreational exercisers who are keen to achieve a level of flexibility that will enhance their perfor...
This sixth edition provides a clear, concise and up-to-date overview of labour economics and integrates this theory with data and other evidence on th...