Postmodern Representations
Subtitle: Truth, Power, and Mimesis in the Human Sciences and Public Culture
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: September 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780252021763
Subjects: Cultural studies; Sociology, Social Studies; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Social Science / General; Postmodernism; Social Change; Social aspects; Literary Criticism
First sentence: The modern academic disciplines were largely formed as disciplines, professionalized and institutionalized, during the proud days of the nineteenth-century industrial expansion, state formation, and imperialism.