James Richard Mensch is Professor of Philosophy at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of The Question of Being in Husserl's Logical Investigations ( Martinus Nijhoff Press, 1981), Intersubjectivity and Transcendental Idealism ( SUNY Press, 1988), The Beginning of the Gospel of St. John: Philosopbical Perspec- tives ( Peter Lang Publishers, 1992), and After Modernity. Husserlian Re- flections on a Philosophical Tradition ( SUNY Press, 1996). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mensch James R. Knowing and being: a postmodern reversal / James Richard Mensch. P. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-271-01554-3 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-271-01555-1 (paper: alK. paper) 1. Postmodernism. 2. Subjectivity. 3. Object (Philosophy) 4. Knowledge, Theory of. I. Title. B831.2.M46 1996 149'.9 -- dc2O 95-40442 CIP Copyright © 1996 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper for the first printing of all clothbound books. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences -- Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. -iv- |