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The Critical Wager: Essays on Criticism and the Architecture of Ideology

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A wide-ranging tour of such topics as philology as criticism, the Marxist impasse, and literature and the flight from determinism.

“While more complex and subtle than a manifesto, The Critical Wager has something of a manifesto's sense of historical moment. Gairdner feels all the ideologies he examines to be equally interesting, but strongly favors — and articulately advocates — a broadly existentialist position, which 'holds the hope for humanity of a responsible and creative freedom ...' To this extent, The Critical Wager is an optimistic book. It is also an uncommonly attractive one, argued, as it is, with intelligence, verve, and grace.”

—David Halliburton, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Stanford University

“William Gairdner has successfully achieved an original explanation of the main critical systems which are alive today ... By comparing these various approaches according to their characteristic driving forces and the problems to which they are characteristically blind, The Critical Wager makes it possible for the average reader to understand the whole progression of critical thought since the Romantic period ... Gairdner writes with a rare first-hand immediacy, and an incisive and commonsensical enthusiasm which commands attention and respect.”

—Ian Watt, Former Chairman, Department of English, Stanford University, and author of The Rise of the Novel

William D. Gairdner, Ph.D., Stanford University (1970), has had a distinguished career as an athlete, businessman, and bestselling author. While completing his undergraduate studies he competed for Canada, in track and field, at the Olympic Games in Tokyo (1964), and then in two Commonwealth Games — 1966 (Jamaica) and 1970 (Scotland). After obtaining his Ph.D. he taught English Literature and Critical Theory at York University for three years, and then left teaching to enter the business world, from which he retired in 1988 for the life of an author. The Critical Wager (1982) was the first of his published books to appear, and these have included a string of important works on intellectual history, and of political, moral and social commentary, such as The Trouble with Canada, The War Against the Family, Canada's Founding Debates, and The Book of Absolutes.

www.williamgairdner.com


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781927483237
  • Publisher: BPS Books
  • Publisher Imprint: BPS Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 210
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 290 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1927483239
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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