Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective: A Reader from 1700 to the Present

Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective: A Reader from 1700 to the Present

by Michael Latham (Editor), JoyceAppleby (Editor), Allison Sneider (Editor), David Hoyt (Editor), ElizabethCovington (Editor)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 559
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 Dec 1995

ISBN 10: 0415913837
ISBN 13: 9780415913836

Author Bio
Joyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham and Allison Sneider are all in the History department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Joyce Appleby's most recent publications include Telling the Truth about History (1994) and Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination.