The Uncertainty of Analysis: Problems in Truth, Meaning and Culture - Couverture rigide

Reiss, Timothy J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801421624 ISBN 13 : 9780801421624

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1988

Synopsis

The Uncertainty of Analysis pursues key issues raised in the author's earlier Discourse of Modernism, a ground-breaking work which focused attention on the nature of discourse and the ways in which one culturally dominant "discursive class" may be replaced by another. In this timely and provocative collection of his essays, Timothy J. Reiss shows how efforts to reconfirm the force and power of modernist, analytico-referential discourse in the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries have actually brought to the fore internal contradictions, have made clear the problematic nature of the dominant discourse, and have precipitated the emergence of competing discourses.

Reiss considers the explorations in foundational logic by Frege and Peirce; examinations of language and its relations to mind by Saussure, Greimas, and Chomsky; work in linguistic and scientific epistemology by Wittgenstein and Heisenberg; and the attempts to analyze the nature of society by Sartre and other Western Marxists. Reiss turns to some practitioners of literary criticism and theory who have sought to escape past constraints, and he points to what appear to be erroneous routes away from the dilemmas raised by these philosophers and critics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Timothy J. Reiss is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801421624
• ISBN 13: 9780801421624
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible