Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930 / Edition 1

by Dorothy Ross

Overview

Modernism is currently at the center of debate in intellectual history and throughout the humanities, a debate generated in part by the advent of postmodernism. While much has been written about the modernist movement in the arts at the turn of the century, this is the first book since H. Stuart Hughes's Consciousness and Society to examine modernism in the human sciences and adjacent areas of philosophy and natural science. It is also the first book to explore that history in light of the contemporary debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801847455
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	06/01/1994
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dorothy Ross is Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet and The Origins of American Social Science.

Editorial Reviews

Emerging from two international conferences, one in Bellagio, Italy, May 1990, and the other in Bielefeld, Germany, November 1991, the essays in this volume link the history of the human sciences between 1870 and 1930 to a broader crisis of Western culture and society, in particular seeking lines of connection between the efforts in the human sciences to reconstruct knowledge, value, and representation, and the broader efforts to come to terms with uncertainty--efforts subsumed under the rubric of "Modernism." The contributors include David A. Hollinger, Richard Rorty, James T. Kloppenberg, David Joravsky, Stefan Collini, and editor Dorothy Ross. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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