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Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth Century

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Traditional eighteenth-century paradigms of reason, truth, and nature underlie modern concepts of self, gender, sex, etc. that are challenged today in the name of a more liberated and pluralistic problematics. This book is the first of two volumes of essays that identify this postmodern challenge. It examines the historiography of postmodern phenomena in relation to the eighteenth-century texts that they ventriloquize. More essays on the topic are contained in Making History .

Language: English

Pages: 196

Format: Hardcover

Release: December 01, 1997

ISBN 13: 9780838753835

Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth Century

0/5 ( ratings)

Traditional eighteenth-century paradigms of reason, truth, and nature underlie modern concepts of self, gender, sex, etc. that are challenged today in the name of a more liberated and pluralistic problematics. This book is the first of two volumes of essays that identify this postmodern challenge. It examines the historiography of postmodern phenomena in relation to the eighteenth-century texts that they ventriloquize. More essays on the topic are contained in Making History .

Language: English

Pages: 196

Format: Hardcover

Release: December 01, 1997

ISBN 13: 9780838753835

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