Belief and Resistance

Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy

Barbara H. Smith

    Preface

    The Unquiet Judge: Activism without Objectivism in Law and Politics

    Making (Up) the Truth: Constructivist Contributions

    Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account

    Doing without Meaning

    Unloading the Self-Refutation Charge

    The Skeptic's Turn: A Performance of Contradiction

    Arguing with Reason

    Appendix: Webs of Reason

    Microdynamics of Incommensurability: Philosophy of Science Meets

    Science Studies

    Notes

    Index

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Barbara Herrnstein Smith is Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Duke University, where she is also Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory.