Rethinking Knowledge: Reflections Across the Disciplines

By George Albert Brown

Book Overview

An exploration of modernism and postmodernism in regard to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations of the mind, the role of values, conceptions of self, and the problematic of reason

This book explores issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations of the mind, the role of values, conceptions of self, and the problematic of reason.

Among the distinguished contributors are Michael Arbib, Aaron Ben-Zeev, Helen Couclelis, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jane Flax, George E. Marcus, Donald McCloskey, Donald Schon, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, and Charles Taylor.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791423387
• ISBN13: 9780791423387
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher