ISBN: 1501723197 9781501723193

Category: History / Europe / Western

Page count: 416

<p><b>Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way.</b> In <i>The Discourse of Modernism</i>, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a radical break from the past but in fact develops directly from its predecessor.</p>