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Article: Apriorism for empiricists.(Responses)
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- June 22, 2008
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When Joseph Carroll's Evolution and Literary Theory appeared in 1995, I read the first hundred pages or so with great interest and took comfort from its critique of the then poststructuralist-dominated literary academy. Carroll's presentation stood out for its comprehensiveness and its uncompromising embrace of empirical values--the same values to which, since 1980, I myself had been appealing against applied deconstruction and its ideologized progeny. (62) In addition, I found that Carroll and I shared an intellectual hero, Charles Darwin, who, for both of us, epitomized a determination to explain observed effects only by reference to commonly ascertainable, temporally ...
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