Joyce Appleby / Elizabeth Covington / David Hoyt / Michael Latham / Allison Sneider (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 572
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1061g
• ISBN-13: 9780415913836
• ISBN-10: 0415913837
• Artikelnr.: 21336462