The Culture of Literacy - Couverture rigide

Godzich, Wlad

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674179544 ISBN 13 : 9780674179547

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Godzich Wlad

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

At the onset of modernity in the 16th century, literature and history were divided. Wlad Godzich, one of the animators of the turn toward literary theory, seeks to restore historical consciousness to criticism after a period of repression. In this study, he considers the emergence of the modern state, the institutions and disciplines of culture and learning, as well as the history of philosophy, the history of historiography, and literary history itself. He offers an account of semiotics; a critical perspective on narratology; a discussion of deconstruction; and many brief, practical demonstrations of why Kant, Hegel and Heidegger remain essential resources for contemporary critical thought. The culture of literacy is on the wane, Godzich argues. Throughout the modern period, language has been the institution that provided the condition of possibility for all other institutions, from university to church to state. But the pervasive crisis of meaning we now experience is the result of a shift in the modes of production of knowledge. The culture of literacy has been faced with transformations it cannot accommodate, and the existing organization of knowledge has been challenged. By wedding literature to a reflective practice of history, Godzich provides a critique of political reason, and a profound sense of how postmodernity can overcome by deftly sidestepping the modern. This book should bring to a wider audience the work of a writer who is recognized as one of the most commanding figures of his generation for range, learning and capacity for innovation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0674179544
• ISBN 13: 9780674179547
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328