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. In The Discourse of Modernism, 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.
- ISBN10 0801493366
- ISBN13 9780801493362
- Publish Date 2 July 1985 (first published 31 March 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 416
- Language English