Uncertainty of Analysis : Problems in Truth, Meaning, and Culture by Timothy J. Reiss (1988, Hardcover)

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"The Uncertainty of Analysis: Problems in Truth, Meaning, and Culture" by Timothy J. Reiss is a literary criticism and philosophical exploration of epistemology, semiotics, and analytic movements. Published by Cornell University Press in 1988, this hardcover book delves into the challenges and complexities surrounding truth, meaning, and culture. With an ISBN-10 of 0801421624, this 316-page book offers insightful analysis and critiques, making it a valuable contribution to the fields of literary theory and philosophy." Bought new. Unread. Fine philosophy text Thanks for visiting

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PublisherCornell University Press

ISBN-100801421624

ISBN-139780801421624

eBay Product ID (ePID)1124727

Product Key Features

Book TitleUncertainty of Analysis : Problems in Truth, Meaning, and Culture

Number of Pages316 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEpistemology, Movements / Analytic, Semiotics & Theory

Publication Year1988

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Philosophy

AuthorTimothy J. Reiss

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN88-047741

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal121

SynopsisThe Uncertainty of Analysis pursues key issues raised in the author's earlier Discourse of Modernism , a ground-breaking work which focused attention on the nature of discourse and the ways in which one culturally dominant "discursive class" may be replaced by another. In this timely and provocative collection of his essays, Timothy J. Reiss shows how efforts to reconfirm the force and power of modernist, analytico-referential discourse in the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries have actually brought to the fore internal contradictions, have made clear the problematic nature of the dominant discourse, and have precipitated the emergence of competing discourses. Reiss considers the explorations in foundational logic by Frege and Peirce; examinations of language and its relations to mind by Saussure, Greimas, and Chomsky; work in linguistic and scientific epistemology by Wittgenstein and Heisenberg; and the attempts to analyze the nature of society by Sartre and other Western Marxists. Reiss turns to some practitioners of literary criticism and theory who have sought to escape past constraints, and he points to what appear to be erroneous routes away from the dilemmas raised by these philosophers and critics., The Uncertainty of Analysis pursues key issues raised in the author's earlier Discourse of Modernism, a ground-breaking work which focused attention on the nature of discourse and the ways in which one culturally dominant "discursive class" may be replaced by another. In this timely and provocative collection of his essays, Timothy J. Reiss...

LC Classification NumberBC171.R44 1988