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Autore |
Reiss Timothy J. <1942-> |
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The Discourse of Modernism / Timothy J. Reiss |
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Cornell University Press, 2018 |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1982 |
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©1982 |
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ISBN |
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9781501728099 |
1501728091 |
9781501723193 |
1501723197 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (410 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Epistemics |
Knowledge, Theory of |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Bibliography: p. 387-402. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Punctuation -- 1. On Method, Discursive Logics, and Epistemology -- 2. Questions of Medieval Discursive Practice -- 3. From the Middle Ages to the (W)Hole of Utopia -- 4. Kepler, His Dream, and the Analysis and Pattern of Thought -- 5. Campanella and Bacon: Concerning Structures of Mind -- 6. The Masculine Birth of Time -- 7. Cyrano and the Experimental Discourse -- 8. The Myth of Sun and Moon -- 9. The Difficulty of Writing -- 10. Crusoe Rights His Story -- 11. Gulliver's Critique of Euclid -- 12. Emergence, Consolidation, and Dominance of a Discourse -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a radical |
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