Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective PDF

Joyce Appleby ist emeritierte Geschichtsprofessorin an der University of California in Los Angeles. Empfängerin des Arthur M. Schlesinger Prize, Jr., der Society of American Historians, für ihre herausragenden Beiträge zur amerikanischen Geschichte. Sie lebt in Los Angeles.

Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective pdf von Joyce Appleby

This comprehensive reader chronicles the western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries while providing the historical context for the postmodernist thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty and Hayden White, and the challenges their ideas have posed to our conventional ways of thinking, writing and knowing.