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Traces the origins of post-modernism in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. This book shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields.

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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992 "This is the most lucid, concise, and comprehensive summary and analysis of the impact of post-modernism on the social sciences... In sum, a brilliant yet genuinely helpful, humane, and readable work."--Choice

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*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. viii*PREFACE, pg. x*GLOSSARY OF POST-MODERN TERMS, pg. xii*ONE. Into the Fray: Crisis, Continuity, and Diversity, pg. 1*TWO. Abandoning the Author, Transforming the Text, and Re-orienting the Reader, pg. 25*THREE. Subverting the Subject, pg. 42*FOUR. Humbling History, Transforming Time, and Garbling Geography (Space), pg. 62*FIVE. A Theory of Theory and the Terrorism of Truth, pg. 77*SIX. Repudiating Representation, pg. 92*SEVEN. Epistemology and Methodology: Post-Modern Alternatives, pg. 109*EIGHT. Post-Modern Political Orientations and Social Science, pg. 138*NINE. Elements for an Assessment, pg. 167*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 185*INDEX, pg. 217

PostModernism and the Social Sciences

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 25 November 1991
      ISBN-13 9780691023472
      978-0691023472
      ISBN-10 0691023476

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Traces the origins of post-modernism in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. This book shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields.

      Trade Review
      One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992 "This is the most lucid, concise, and comprehensive summary and analysis of the impact of post-modernism on the social sciences... In sum, a brilliant yet genuinely helpful, humane, and readable work."--Choice

      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. viii*PREFACE, pg. x*GLOSSARY OF POST-MODERN TERMS, pg. xii*ONE. Into the Fray: Crisis, Continuity, and Diversity, pg. 1*TWO. Abandoning the Author, Transforming the Text, and Re-orienting the Reader, pg. 25*THREE. Subverting the Subject, pg. 42*FOUR. Humbling History, Transforming Time, and Garbling Geography (Space), pg. 62*FIVE. A Theory of Theory and the Terrorism of Truth, pg. 77*SIX. Repudiating Representation, pg. 92*SEVEN. Epistemology and Methodology: Post-Modern Alternatives, pg. 109*EIGHT. Post-Modern Political Orientations and Social Science, pg. 138*NINE. Elements for an Assessment, pg. 167*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 185*INDEX, pg. 217

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