Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences : : Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions / / Pauline Marie Rosenau.
Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Ros...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1991] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 1991 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- GLOSSARY OF POST-MODERN TERMS
- ONE. Into the Fray: Crisis, Continuity, and Diversity
- TWO. Abandoning the Author, Transforming the Text, and Re-orienting the Reader
- THREE. Subverting the Subject
- FOUR. Humbling History, Transforming Time, and Garbling Geography (Space)
- FIVE. A Theory of Theory and the Terrorism of Truth
- SIX. Repudiating Representation
- SEVEN. Epistemology and Methodology: Post-Modern Alternatives
- EIGHT. Post-Modern Political Orientations and Social Science
- NINE. Elements for an Assessment
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Backmatter