The Critical Wager: Essays on Criticism and the Architecture of Ideology

by William D. Gairdner

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A wide-ranging tour of such topics as philology as criticism, the Marxist impasse, and literature and the flight from determinism.

“While more complex and subtle than a manifesto, The Critical Wager has something of a manifesto's sense of historical moment. Gairdner feels all the ideologies he examines to be equally interesting, but strongly favors — and articulately advocates — a broadly existentialist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927483239
• ISBN13: 9781927483237
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: BPS Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"