Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective

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.

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.