Author : Joyce Appleby
Release : 2020-04-16
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 424/5 ( reviews)
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. This book was released on 2020-04-16. 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.