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Belief and resistance : dynamics of contemporary intellectual controversy
- Title
- Belief and resistance : dynamics of contemporary intellectual controversy / Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Barbara Herrnstein.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BD161 .S56 1997 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Derrida copy 99125489919406421 folder 4
- Description
- xxv, 221 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Truth, reason, and objectivity - can we survive without them? What happens to law, science, and the pursuit of social justice when such ideas and ideals are rejected? These questions are at the heart of the controversies between traditionalists and "postmodernists" that Barbara Herrnstein Smith examines in her wide-ranging new book, which also offers an original perspective on the perennial - perhaps eternal - clash of belief and skepticism, on our need for intellectual stability and our experience of its inevitable disruption.
- Alternative Title
- Belief & resistance
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Knowledge, Theory of
- Skepticism
- Cognition
- Thought and thinking
- Constructivism (Philosophy)
- Philosophy, Modern > 20th century
- Philosophy, Modern
- epistemology
- cognition
- thinking
- Epistemología
- Constructivismo (Psicología)
- Waarheid
- Objectiviteit
- Debatten
- Epistemologia
- Ceticismo
- Sociologia do conhecimento
- Filosofia > Século 20
- Argumentatie
- Genre/Form
- Inscriptions (Provenance)
- Insertions (Provenance)
- Note
- Inscribed copy. Includes manuscript material. Check-in observation: Inscribed: "For Jacques --- with profound admiration and much affection --- Barbara". Address of author tipped in.
- Stored in box B-000482. Forms part of: The Library of Jacques Derrida, House Series. House. Gift Books, Works By and About Derrida, and Related Items.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-212) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Unquiet Judge: Activism without Objectivism in Law and Politics -- 2. Making (Up) the Truth: Constructivist Contributions -- 3. Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account -- 4. Doing without Meaning -- 5. Unloading the Self-Refutation Charge -- 6. The Skeptic's Turn: A Performance of Contradiction -- 7. Arguing with Reason -- Appendix: Webs of Reason -- 8. Microdynamics of Incommensurability: Philosophy of Science Meets Science Studies.
- ISBN
- 0674064925
- 9780674064928
- 0674064917
- 9780674064911
- LCCN
- 96044612
- OCLC
- ocm35784343
- 35784343
- SCSB-9580142
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library