The Discourse of Modernism / Timothy J. Reiss.

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 o...

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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.
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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