1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000666630403321

Titolo

Human behavior and environment : advances in theory and research / edited by Irwin Altman and Joachim F. Wohlwill ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Plenum Press, 1976-

ISBN

0306333015

Descrizione fisica

v. ; 23 cm

Locazione

DINST

Collocazione

01 A1 III 15

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Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1.: Human behavior and environment. - 1976 2.: Human behavior and environment. - 1977 3.: Children and the environment. - 1978 4.: Environment and culture. - 1980 5.: Transportation and behavior. - 1981 6.: Behavior and the natural environment. - 1983 7.: Elderly people and the environment. - 1984 8.: Home environments. - 1985 9.: Neighborhood and community environments. - 1987 10.: Public places and spaces. - 1989



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466666103321

Autore

Reiss Timothy J. <1942->

Titolo

The uncertainty of analysis : problems in truth, meaning, and culture / / Timothy J. Reiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , [1988]

©1988

ISBN

1-5017-3303-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)

Classificazione

CI 1100

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Truth

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Punctuation -- Introduction -- 1. Peirce and Frege: In the Matter of Truth -- 2. Semiology and Its Discontents: Saussure and Greimas -- 3. Project for a Discursive Criticism -- 4. Carnival's Illusionary Place and the Process of Order -- 5. The Matter of Signs: Language and Society in Sartre's Argument -- 6. The Trouble with Literary Criticism -- 7. How Can 'New Meaning' Be Thought? -- 8. Social Context and the Failure of Theory -- 9. For an End to Discursive Crisis -- Appendix to Chapter 1 -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Uncertainty of Analysis pursues key issues raised in the author's earlier Discourse of Modernism, a ground-breaking work which focused attention on the nature of discourse and the ways in which one culturally dominant "discursive class" may be replaced by another. In this timely and provocative collection of his essays, Timothy J. Reiss shows how efforts to reconfirm the force and power of modernist, analytico-referential discourse in the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries have actually brought to the fore internal contradictions, have made clear the problematic nature of the dominant discourse, and have precipitated the emergence of competing discourses.Reiss considers the explorations in foundational logic by Frege and Peirce; examinations of language and its relations to mind by Saussure, Greimas, and Chomsky; work in linguistic and scientific epistemology



by Wittgenstein and Heisenberg; and the attempts to analyze the nature of society by Sartre and other Western Marxists. Reiss turns to some practitioners of literary criticism and theory who have sought to escape past constraints, and he points to what appear to be erroneous routes away from the dilemmas raised by these philosophers and critics.