Description:
The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era -from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry methods to address them develop in a coordinated manner, given a mutual awareness.
Review Quotes:
"Blum's vision is as panoramic as the title suggests, moving freely among fields usually kept separate from Pufendorff to Elfriede Jelinek. The work will stimulate discussion and controversy, as ambitious projects always do. It will interest anyone who values the European tradition of grand meta-historical thinking. Whatever one's verdict on Blum's "metaparadigms," it is heartening to see the revival of a genre that had once seemed defunct." -- Hans Kellner, Professor of English, Chair of the NCSU Faculty, North Carolina State University, USA
