208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Postmodernism is an essential approach to History. This is the first dedicated primer on postmodernism for the historian. It offers a step-by-step guide to postmodern theory, includes a guide to how historians have applied the theory, and provides a review of why its critics are wrong. In simple and clear language, it takes the reader through the chain of theory that developed in the 20th... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Empiricism
2. Signs
3. Discourse
4. Poststructuralism
5. Text
6. Self
7. Morality
8. Criticism of postmodernism in history
Conclusion
Glossary
Further reading
Web links
Index
Biography
Callum G. Brown is Professor of Religious and Cultural History at the University of Dundee. He teaches and researches in the history of community ritual, personal memory and secularisation. He is author of The Death of Christian Britain (2000) and Up-helly-aa (1998).
