Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. viii*PREFACE, pg. x*GLOSSARY OF POST-MODERN TERMS, pg. xii*ONE. Into the Fray: Crisis, Continuity, and Diversity, pg. 1*TWO. Abandoning the Author, Transforming the Text, and Re-orienting the Reader, pg. 25*THREE. Subverting the Subject, pg. 42*FOUR. Humbling History, Transforming Time, and Garbling Geography (Space), pg. 62*FIVE. A Theory of Theory and the Terrorism of Truth, pg. 77*SIX. Repudiating Representation, pg. 92*SEVEN. Epistemology and Methodology: Post-Modern Alternatives, pg. 109*EIGHT. Post-Modern Political Orientations and Social Science, pg. 138*NINE. Elements for an Assessment, pg. 167*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 185*INDEX, pg. 217

About the Author

Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau is Professor of Management and Policy Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas/Houston.

Reviews

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992 "This is the most lucid, concise, and comprehensive summary and analysis of the impact of post-modernism on the social sciences... In sum, a brilliant yet genuinely helpful, humane, and readable work."--Choice