1st Edition
The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age
By Nigel A. Raab
Copyright 2020
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists. Over the past two generations, humanists have come to take basic postmodern theories for granted whether on language, knowledge or time. Yet Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and similar philosophers developed their ideas when the impact of this digital... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The Achievement of Postmodernism
3. The End of the Linguistic Turn
4. The End of Theory in the Humanities
5. The Influence of Algorithms on Humanistic Thought
6. Digital Space
7. Digital Time
8. Data Visuals
9. Digital Forgeries
10. Conclusion
Biography
Nigel A. Raab is professor of Russian history at Loyola Marymount University.
