| History in the Discursive Condition: Reconsidering the Tools of Thought Subjects: Humanities; Language & Literature; Politics & International Relations; History; Political Theory; Philosophy; Cultural Studies; Literature; History - Theory Method & Historiography; Critical Thinking; Feminist Philosophy; Philosophy of Social Science; Cultural Theory; Literary/ Critical Theory; Postmodernism Literature; In this bold new book, Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth traces the broadly established challenges to modernity that now confront historians and citizens of Western societies generally. She puts forward a clear definition of both The Modern Condition and of The Discursive Condition that challenges it, and she briefly introduces the most important practical implications of those challenges to accepted definitions and tools of thought.
Elizabeth Ermarth |