Discourse of Modernism

By Timothy J. Reiss

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801414644
• ISBN13: 9780801414640
• Release Date: March 1982
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher