Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective pdf

Joyce Appleby is a retired professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Recipient of the Arthur M. Schlesinger Prize, Jr., from the Society of American Historians, for her distinguished writing on American history. She lives in Los Angeles.

Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective pdf by 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.