Author: Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
Title: Contingencies of Value. Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory
Description: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1988. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, (8), 229 pp, Some light rubbing & fraying to dustwrapper.. One sentence on page 11 pencil underlined,slight spine slope,VG. ¶ Contents: Fixed Marks & Variable Constancies: Evaluating Shakespeare's Sonnets; Critical Problematics; The Exile of Evaluation: Fact & Value in the Literary Academy; The Politics of Evaluative Criticism; An Alternative Project; Contingencies of Value: Contingency & Interdependence; Matters of Taste; Processes of Evaluation; The Dynamics of Endurance; Axiologic Logic:Hume's Natural Standard; Kant's Pure Judgements; Logical Tastes & the Other's Poison; The Postaxiological Postscripts; Truth/Value: Judgement Typology & MacIntyre's Fall; Value without Truth-Value; Changing Places: Truth, Error & Deconstruction; The Critiques of Utility: Humanism, Anti- Utilitarianism, and the Double Discourse of Value; Bataille's Expenditure; Endless (Ex)Change; Matters of Consequence: Critiques & Charges: The Objectivist Generation of "Relativism"; Quietism & the Active Relativist; Community, Solidarity, and the Pragmatist's Dilemma; Politics & Justification; Conceptual Tastes & Practical Consequences.

Keywords: Philosophy of literature, Literary criticism, Aesthetics, Aesthetic, Value, Axiology, Critical theory, ,