Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0415913837 ISBN 13 : 9780415913836

Editeur : Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective This comprehensive reader chronicles the Western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries, including works from such philosophers as Hayden White, Rene Descartes, Emmanuel White, Theodor Adorno, Adam Smith. Full description

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415913837
• ISBN 13: 9780415913836
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 572