The Academic Brand of Aphasia: Where Postmodernism and the Science Wars Came From.

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Title: The Academic Brand of Aphasia: Where Postmodernism and the Science Wars Came From.
Authors: Drake, James
Source: Knowledge, Technology & Policy. Spring/Summer2002, Vol. 15 Issue 1/2, p13. 175p.
Subject Terms: Science & the humanities, Postmodernism (Philosophy)
People: Jacobson, Roman
Abstract: Traces the so-called science wars of the postmodernist period to an essay by Roman Jacobson on aphasia. Deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida's suggestion that science was mythology; Incorporation of the theories of Jakobson into the humanities; Distortions of Kurt Goldstein as bases of poststructuralist and postmodernist theories.
Database: Education Research Complete
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Abstract:Traces the so-called science wars of the postmodernist period to an essay by Roman Jacobson on aphasia. Deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida's suggestion that science was mythology; Incorporation of the theories of Jakobson into the humanities; Distortions of Kurt Goldstein as bases of poststructuralist and postmodernist theories.
ISSN:19464789