Theorrhoea and after

"The first part of Theorrhoea and After completes Raymond Tallis's demolition of post-Saussurean thought, a project inaugurated in his classic critique Not Saussure. He exposes the tactics used by theorists to keep theory, and their own reputations, alive in the face of the demonstration that their claims are baseless."--BOOK JACKET. "In the second part, Tallis moves beyond theorrhoea to examine literature and the other arts from a viewpoint unbewitched by contemporary postmodernist thought. He takes a sceptical look at the place of literary criticism, is scandalously rude about the quasi-artistic pretensions of sport, dismisses the claims of art to be useful, undermines received ideas about the referents of music, and draws attention to the fundamental heterogeneity of the different arts. He ends with a long essay reflecting on the place of art in a world utterly transformed by technological advance."--Jacket.