Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy

by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

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Truth, reason, and objectivity--can we survive without them? What happens to law, science, and the pursuit of social justice when such ideas and ideals are rejected? These questions are at the heart of the controversies between traditionalists and "postmodernists" that Barbara Herrnstein Smith examines in her wide-ranging book, which also offers an original perspective on the perennial--perhaps eternal--clash of belief and skepticism, on our need...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674064925

ISBN13:9780674064928

Release Date:April 1997

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:252 Pages

Weight:0.77 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 9.2"

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Criticism & Theory Epistemology History & Criticism History & Surveys Literary Theory Literature Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences

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