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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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.
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United States, New York, Richard Rorty, Hayden White, David Hume, David Harvey, French Revolution, Adam Smith, Thomas Kuhn, World War, Clifford Geertz, The Savage Mind, Cambridge University Press, Ernst Cassirer, Frankfurt School, University of Chicago, Benjamin Franklin, Cold War, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Elementary Structures, Georges Borchardt, Basic Books, Basil Blackwell, Franz Boas, General Congress New!
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United States, New York, Richard Rorty, Hayden White, David Hume, David Harvey, French Revolution, Adam Smith, Thomas Kuhn, World War, Clifford Geertz, The Savage Mind, Cambridge University Press, Ernst Cassirer, Frankfurt School, University of Chicago, Benjamin Franklin, Cold War, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Elementary Structures, Georges Borchardt, Basic Books, Basil Blackwell, Franz Boas, General Congress New!
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- Deconstructing History by Alun Munslow in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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