Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy

by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Book Overview

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 book, which also offers an original perspective on the perennial--perhaps eternal--clash of belief and skepticism, on our need...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064925
• ISBN13: 9780674064928
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.2"