The discourse of modernism /

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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Main Author: Reiss, Timothy J., 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1982.
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Table of Contents:
  • On method, discursive logics, and epistemology
  • Questions of medieval discursive practice
  • From the middle ages to the (w)hole of Utopia
  • Kepler, his Dream, and the analysis and pattern of thought
  • Campanella and Bacon: concerning structures of mind
  • The masculine birth of time
  • Cyrano and the experimental discourse
  • The myth of sun and moon
  • The difficulty of writing
  • Crusoe rights his story
  • Gulliver's critique of Euclid
  • Emergence, consolidation, and dominance of a discourse.