Authors:Christop Norris, Christopher Norris,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: accents, new, practice, theory, deconstruction
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2002-07
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0415280095
ISBN-13: 9780415280099

Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The volume focuses on the works of Jacques Derrida which caused this seismic shift in critical thought, as well as the work of North American critics Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller and Harold Bloom.In this third, revised edition, Norris builds on his 1991 Afterword with an entirely new Postscript, reflecting upon recent critical debat

Author: Christopher Norris
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: realism, routledge, critical, studies, scientific, language, challenge, philosophy
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-11-11
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0415327857
ISBN-13: 9780415327855

In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. Through a close critical reading he shows how they fail to make adequate sense on any rational, consistent and scientifically informed survey of the evidence. Along the way he incorporates a number of detailed case-studies from the history and philosophy of science. Also included are the sophisticated versions of verificationism developed by thinkers such as Michael Dummett and Bas van Fraassen. Central to Norris’s argument is a prolong

Author: Christopher Norris
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: studies, philosophy, continuum, share, music, listener, platonism
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2006-12-09
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0826491782
ISBN-13: 9780826491787

What is a musical work? What are its identity-conditions and the standards (if any) that they set for a competent, intelligent, and musically perceptive act of performance or audition? Should the work-concept henceforth be dissolved as some New Musicologists would have it into the various, everchanging socio-cultural or ideological contexts that make up its reception-history to date? Can music be thought of as possessing certain attributes, structural features, or intrinsically valuable qualities that are response-transcendent, i.e., that might always elude or surpass the best state of (curren

Author: Christopher Norris
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: derrida
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0674198247
ISBN-13: 9780674198241

Jacques Derrida (born 1930) is undoubtedly the single most influential figure in current Anglo-American literary theory. Yet many scholars and students, not to mention general readers, would be hard put to give an account of Derrida’s own writings. In this admirably clear and intelligent introduction, Christopher Norris demonstrates that Derrida’s texts should be understood as belonging more to philosophy than to literature. Norris explains the significance of Derrida’s writing on texts in the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato to Kant, liegel, and tiusserl, placin

Author: Christopher Norris
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: philosophy, concepts, key, epistemology
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-10-20
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0826477313
ISBN-13: 9780826477316

Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with an interest in, but little prior knowledge of, philosophy, these books open up fascinating, yet sometimes difficult ideas. The series builds to give a solid grounding in philosophy and each book is also ideal as a companion for further study. Renowned author Christopher Norris provides a lucid survey and analysis of the issues that have shaped that enterprise and contin

Author: Christopher Norris
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: matters, truth
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0748615989
ISBN-13: 9780748615988

Truth Matters is the first full-length introduction to response-dependence, a topic of great interest for philosophers across a wide range of disciplines. Norris examines the evolution of the topic, discussing its sources and analogues in Plato, Locke, Kant, and Wittgenstein. Throughout the work, Norris offers wide-ranging coverage with clarity of focus and depth of philosophical treatment.

Authors:Chuck Norris, Ken Abraham, Aaron Norris, Tim Grayem,
Publisher: B&H Books
Keywords: justice, riders, novel, threat
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 080544033X
ISBN-13: 9780805440331

A Threat to Justice, book two in THE JUSTICE RIDERS series from Chuck Norris and friends, finds Ezra Justice and his elite group of special operation soldiers having gone their separate ways just after the Civil War. But not for long. When General Sherman needs a team to combat the armed resistances against President Grant and his efforts to reconstruct America, Justice rides again. This heroic action tale of good versus evil, with elements of faith and romance, takes the Justice Riders everywhere from the Ku Klux Klanridden deep South to the adventure-filled goldmines of California.