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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.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I The First Modern Metaparadigm, c.1648-c.1750; Chapter One The First Phase: Seminal Ideation, c.1648-c.1670: The Focus upon Definition and Hypothesis; Chapter Two The Second Phase: Developing a Systematic Theory for Future Inquiry and Problem-Solving c.1670-c.1690; Chapter Three The Third Phase: Material Inquiry into the Verifiability of Specific Concepts, and Conflict over the Implications of the Findings c.1690-c.1720; Chapter Four The Fourth Phase: Integrating the New Four Causal Understandings with the Traditional c.1720-c.1750; Part II The Second Modern Metaparadigm, c.1750-c.1865; Chapter Five The First Phase: Seminal Ideation, c.1750-c.1770: The Focus upon Definition and Hypothesis; Chapter Six The Second Phase: Developing a Systematic Structure for Guiding New Inquiry and Explanation c.1770-c.1790; Chapter Seven The Third Phase: Material Inquiry into the Verifiability of Specific Concepts, and Conflict over the Implications of the Findings c.1790-c.1820; Chapter Eight The Fourth Phase: Integrating the New Four Causal Understandings with the Traditional c.1820-c.1860; Part III The Third Modern Metaparadigm c.1860-c.1960; Chapter Nine The First Phase: Seminal Ideation, c.1860-1870: The Focus upon Definition and Hypothesis; Chapter Ten The Second Phase: Developing a Systematic Structure for Guiding New Inquiry and Explanation c.1870-c.1895; Chapter Eleven The Third Phase: Material Inquiry into the Verifiability of Specific Concepts, and Conflict over the Implications of the Findings c.1890-c.1920; Chapter Twelve The Fourth Phase: Integrating the New Four Causal Understandings with the Traditional c.1920-c.1960; Part IV The Fourth Modern Metaparadigm, c.1970-c.2060; Chapter Thirteen The First Phase: Seminal Ideation, c.1960-1980: The Focus upon Definition and Hypothesis; Chapter Fourteen The Second Phase: Developing a Systematic Structure for Guiding New Inquiry and Explanation c.1970-1990; Chapter Fifteen The Third Phase: Material Inquiry into the Verifiability of Specific Concepts, and Conflict over the Implications of the Findings c.1990-c. 2020; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Mark E. Blum is a professor of European history at the University of Louisville. He has a master's degree in English history from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Austrian-German history from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published over nine books, several focusing upon the epistemology of human consciousness - in its verbal as well as figural foundations.
