Abstract
[P]ost-modernism involves the development of new rhetorics of science, new stories of knowledge ‘after truth’‥. The postmodern world is without guarantees, without ‘method’‥. All we can do is invent. We must construct and exemplify the rhetorics of the future … through … endless stories. Like this one. Tomlinson (1989), pp.44,57.
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Patti Lather
(1993).
Fertile Obsession: Validity After Poststructuralism.
Sociological Quarterly
, 34
(4)
, 673-693.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1993.tb00112.x
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- 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1993.tb00112.x