Since the process of modernism in Iranian architecture and after formation of the post-modernist thought, tendency to apply some of the principles, concepts and elements of traditional architecture became widespread. Traditionalism approach in the course of different eras of Iranian Architecture, before and after revolution in Iran; has appeared in different ways and intentions. The thought fie...

DOI 10.1215/016424721468308 © 2012 Duke University Press It has been twenty years since Kwame Anthony Appiah’s sharply critical essay, “Is the Postin Postmodernism the Postin Postcolonial?,” brought to our attention the deep complicities of the postcolonial intellectual with global capitalism’s management of cultural commodities out of Africa via the fetishism of the self as other.1 An unthinki...

These notes have the status of letters written to ourselves: we wrote them down because, without doing so, we found ourselves making up new arguments over and over again. So began the abstract of our earlier paper Notes on Postmodern Programming. We now revisit the issue of postmodern programming, and attempt to address some of the questions raised by our exposition. To illustrate the nature of...

Pericles Lewis, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University, is the author of Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2000). He is currently working on two projects, The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism and a book on religious experience in the modernist novel, from which the essay in this issue is drawn. Churchgoing in the Modern N...

Having defined Modernism and postmodernism, I then describe in what sense both paradigms have failed. The article discusses the possibility of a new approach that circumvents such drawbacks kind “third position” build on innovations modernism initiated while suggesting an alternative mode discourse overcomes its potential extreme rationalism or relativism.

and impressive applicability of mathematics in the natural sciences. Quineans hold that mathematics is conIlrDled by these applications, that only that part of mathematics with application is justified. Defenders of pure mathematics naturally disagree, finding justification for unapplied mathematics in various places, perhaps in some largely unspecified aesthetic virtues or in some philosophy o...