ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |113 pages
The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Thought
part |121 pages
Nineteenth-Century Social Theory
part |125 pages
Challenges to Nineteenth-Century Theory
part |104 pages
Postmodernist Thought
part |68 pages
Responding to Postmodernism