The Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era

Four Evolving Metaparadigms, 1648 to Present

af Mark E. Blum

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.