A New Science of Representation: Towards an Integrated Theory of Representation in Science, Politics and Art

In the tradition of Vico, Compte, Weber, Norbert Elias and Charles E. Lindblom, this volume is a statement on both the nature of cultural development and the interpretation of our confused present. Arguing that tha crucial changes in human cultural history correlate with fundamental transformations in modes of representation, Redner traces human development from primitive culture to that of the present age, an age that is still, he argues, fundamentally modernist.