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 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. 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 Timothy J. Reiss. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 387-402. In English.