Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective pdf

Joyce Appleby es profesora jubilada de historia en la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles. Recipiente del Premio Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., de la Sociedad de Historiadores Estadounidenses, por sus distinguidos escritos sobre la historia de Estados Unidos. Ella vive en Los Ángeles.

Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective pdf por 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.