What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of PhilosophyIn What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the postmodern pragmatist malaise of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulse an enlightened or emancipatory interest in thinkers like Derrida, de Man, Bhaskar, and Habermas. Offering a provocative reassessment of Derrida's influence on modern thinking, Norris attempts to sever the tie between deconstruction and American literary critics who, he