Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory

by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Book Overview

Charges of abandoned standards issue from government offices; laments for the loss of the best that has been thought and said resound through university corridors. While revisionists are perplexed by questions of value, critical theory--haunted by the heresy of relativism--remains captive to classical formulas. Barbara Herrnstein Smith's book confronts the conceptual problems and sociopolitical conflicts at the heart of these issues and raises their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674167856
• ISBN13: 9780674167858
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"