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Record Nr.

UNINA9910272354203321

Autore

Reiss Timothy J. <1942->

Titolo

The Discourse of Modernism / Timothy J. Reiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2018

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1982

©1982

ISBN

9781501728099

1501728091

9781501723193

1501723197

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 pages)

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Epistemics

Knowledge, Theory of

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 387-402.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



break from the past but in fact develops directly from its predecessor.