Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective pdf

Joyce Appleby è una professoressa di storia in pensione presso l'Università della California, Los Angeles. Destinatario dell'Arthur M. Schlesinger Prize, Jr., della Society of American Historians, per i suoi illustri scritti sulla storia americana. Vive a Los Angeles.

Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective pdf da 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.