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.
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Timothy J. Reiss is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of The Meaning of Literature (also published by Cornell University Press), Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe, Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange, and Knowledge, Discovery, and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism.
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