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Belief and Resistance
Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy
Häftad, 1997
418 kr
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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 …
Poetic Closure
A Study of How Poems End
Häftad, 2007
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419 kr
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In "Poetic Closure", distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure …
Natural Reflections
Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion
Inbunden, 2010
858 kr
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In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One, which Smith calls “the New Naturalism,” is the effort to explain religion on the …
Contingencies of Value
Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory
Häftad, 1991
586 kr
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Charges of abandoned standards issue from government offices; laments for the loss of the best that has been thought and said resound through university corridors. While revisionists are perplexed by questions of value, critical theory—haunted by the heresy of relativism—remains captive to …
Scandalous Knowledge
Science, Truth and the Human
Inbunden, 2006
1562 kr
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This book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of science, and contemporary cognitive science. Smith reviews the key issues involved in the twentieth-century critiques of traditional views of human knowledge and …
Politics of Liberal Education
Av Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Darryl Gless
Inbunden, 1991
1287 kr
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Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform in …
Politics of Liberal Education
Av Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Darryl Gless
Häftad, 1991
547 kr
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Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform in …
Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory
Av Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Arkady Plotnitsky
Häftad, 1997
563 kr
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Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language, proof, truth, and reality currently emerging from poststructuralist literary theory, constructivist …
Politics of Liberal Education
Av Darryl Gless, Barbara Herrnstein Smith
E-bok, 1991
554 kr
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Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform in …
Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory
Av Arkady Plotnitsky, Barbara Herrnstein Smith
E-bok, 1997
641 kr
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Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language, proof, truth, and reality currently emerging from poststructuralist literary theory, constructivist …
Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene
On Science, Belief, and the Humanities
Häftad, 2018
252 kr
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Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory
Av Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Arkady Plotnitsky
Inbunden, 1997
1268 kr
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Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language, proof, truth, and reality currently emerging from poststructuralist literary theory, constructivist …
