Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective
Will be published approx. on 14. March 1996
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-0-415-91382-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-91382-9 (9780415913829)
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Joyce Appleby | Elizabeth Covington | David Hoyt
Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective
E-Book
04/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
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Joyce Appleby | Elizabeth Covington | David Hoyt
Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective
E-Book
04/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Joyce Appleby | Elizabeth Covington | David Hoyt
Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective
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12/1995
Routledge
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Persons
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.
Content
Includes extracts from the works of: Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, John Locke, Adam Smith, David Hume, Emmanuel Kant, Marquis de Condorcet, Ernst Cassirer, Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Charles Baudelaire, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Norman Birnbaum, John Dewey, Ruth Benedict, Claude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Thomas Kuhn, Alasdair MacIntyre, Paul Ricoeur, Hayden White, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Cornel West, David Harvey, Jurgen Habermas, Craig Calhoun, Seyla Benhabib.