Return of the real
A.D. Nuttall
- Uncritical Theory: Post-Modernism, Intellectuals and the Gulf War by Christopher Norris
Lawrence and Wishart, 218 pp, £9.99, February 1992, ISBN 0 85315 752 9
The idea has got around – among ‘advanced’ thinkers of various political persuasions – that realist epistemologies are a thing of the past, that truth values in criticism have now been discredited (or shown up as just a figment of bourgeois ideology); that history and politics are textual ( = fictive) phenomena on a par with poems, novels, or whatever other ‘kinds of writing’ you care to name; and that henceforth the only ‘discourse’ that counts is one that cheerfully acknowledges all this, along with such assumed faits accomplis as the ‘deconstruction’ of the humanist subject as a locus of ethical choices, conflicts and responsibilities.
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