Postmodern Representations
Subtitle: Truth, Power, and Mimesis in the Human Sciences and Public Culture
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: August 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780252064654
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Postmodernism; General; Social Science / General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 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.