by Barbara Herrnstein Smith; Harvard University Press, 1997.

This short book contains a preface, eight essays and fifty-nine pages of notes. There is no bibliography. Earlier versions of the preface and some of the essays have already been published elsewhere.

The topic is "the contemporary intellectual controversy" between those who uphold a theory dubbed traditional or classical objectivism, and those described, variously, as progressives, relativists, deconstructionists, constructivists or postmodernists. (In order to save space I will usually call this ...

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