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Meta-Criticism and Meta-Poetry: A Critique of Theoretical Anarchy KARSTEN HARRIES Yale University 1 . If Kant could call his age an age of criticism, we seem to be entering an age of meta-criticism: criticism questions and deconstructs itself, ending in theoretical anarchy.' 1 Kant thought criticism inseparable from enlightenment. Having come of age, man insists that the traditional demands placed on him by religion, morality, and society be subjected to free and public examina- tion. Only what passes this test is worthy of our respect. Kant already ex- tended this critique to reason itself. But if this extension challenges the authority of reason, one has to wonder how serious such a challenge, which after all presupposes the authority of reason, can be. It is hardly surprising that reason survives the test. Even if Kant's Critique limits reason's domain, his faith in it not only remains unshaken, but is strengthened. Today such faith is somewhat harder to come by. We wonder whether the judge was sufficiently unbiased. Does the authority of reason in fact survive a completely free and public examination? Such thinkers as Nietzsche and Dilthey, Heidegger and Derrida, have radicalized Kant's critical enterprise in such a way
Research in Phenomenology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1979
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