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BL
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989548
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b743918
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
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| Title & Author
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Contingencies of value : : alternative perspectives for critical theory /\ Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
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| Edition Statement
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First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ;London, England :: Harvard University Press,, 1991
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229 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0674167856
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: 0674167864
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: 9780674167858
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: 9780674167865
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-221) and index.
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| Contents
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Fixed marks and variable constancies: a parable of value. Evaluating Shakespeare's sonnets -- Critical problematics -- The exile of evaluation. Fact and value in the literary academy -- The politics of evaluation criticism -- An alternative project -- Contingencies of value. Contingency and interdependence -- Matters of taste -- Processes of evaluation -- The dynamics of endurance -- Axiologic logic. Hume's natural standard -- Kant's pure judgments -- Logical tastes and the other's poison -- Three postaxiological postscripts -- Truth/value. Judgment typology and MacIntyre's fall -- Value without truth-value -- Changing places: truth, error, and deconstruction -- The critiques of utility. Humanism, anti-utilitarianism, and the double discourse of value --Bataille's expenditure -- Endless (ex)change -- Matters of consequence. Critiques and charges: the objectivist generation of "relativism" -- Quietism and the active relativist -- Community, solidarity, and the pragmatist's dilemma -- Politics and justification -- Conceptual tastes and practical consequences.
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Aesthetics.
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Literature-- History and criticism.
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Values.
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Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics.
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Criticism.
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Literature-- History and criticism.
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Literature.
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Littérature-- Histoire et critique.
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Values.
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Values.
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| Dewey Classification
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801.95
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| LC Classification
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PN45.S4794 1991
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