The Discourse of Modernism / Timothy J. Reiss.

• Author: Reiss, Timothy J., 1942-
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1982.; ©1982.
• Year of Publication: 2018; 1982
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

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.

Table of Contents

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