Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective
Author | : Joyce Appleby |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781136664427 |
ISBN-13 | : 1136664424 |
Rating | : 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective by : Joyce Appleby
Download or read book Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective written by Joyce Appleby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.