Belief and resistance
Subtitle: dynamics of contemporary intellectual controversy
By: Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.; Skepticism.; Cognition.; Thought and thinking.; Constructivism (Philosophy); Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Other titles: Belief & resistance
Description: 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 new book, which also offers an original perspective on the perennial - perhaps eternal - clash of belief and skepticism, on our need for intellectual stability and our experience of its inevitable disruption.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-212) and index.