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Belief and resistance : dynamics of contemporary intellectual controversy / Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Barbara Herrnstein.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Skepticism.
- Cognition.
- Thought and thinking.
- Constructivism (Philosophy).
- Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 221 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Belief & resistance
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- What happens to law, science, and the pursuit of social justice when the ideas of truth, reason and objectivity are rejected? This question is at the heart of the controversies between traditionalists and "postmodernists." Barbara Herrnstein Smith here examines the debate across a wide range of disciplines and through important and ongoing controversies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674064925
- 0674064917
- OCLC:
- 35784343
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