Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective

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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.

Book details

Author:
Appleby Joyce, Covington Elizabeth, Hoyt David, Latham Michael, Sneider Allison
ISBN:
9781136664427
Related ISBNs:
9781315022086, 9780415913836, 9780415913836, 9780415913829, 9780415913829
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Grades:
College Freshman
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-07-04
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1996
Copyright by:
Routledge 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Nonfiction