Spinoza & the Origins of Modern Critical Theory

by Christopher Norris

This book offers a detailed account of Spinoza's influence on various schools of present-day critical thought. That influence extends from Althusserian Marxism to hermeneutics, deconstruction, narrative poetics, new historicism, and the unclassifiable writings of a thinker like Giles Deleuze. The author combines a close exegesis of Spinoza's texts with a series of chapters that trace the evolution of literary theory from its period of high scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631175571
• ISBN13: 9780631175575
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"