Share the story of what Open Access means to you
![a graphic of a lock that is open, the universal logo for open access](/assets/oa-lock-logo-lg-a95dd8d9f9fe5e21ab4499ffd0c8661e55f7d788ae0a03f19a6749eb82e3e899.png)
University of Michigan needs your feedback to better understand how readers are using openly available ebooks. You can help by taking a short, privacy-friendly survey.
On the future of history: the postmodernist challenge and its aftermath
Ernst Breisach-
Frontmatter
-
A Prefatory and Introductory Note (page ix)
-
PART 1 A Preliminary Exploration of the Postmodernist Challenge (page 1)
-
1 A Look at Terms and Issues (page 3)
-
2 An Adversarial Image of Modernity (page 11)
-
3 The Postmodern Moment (page 15)
-
4 At the Core of the Postmodernist Challenge to History (page 17)
-
5 Two Versions of the Postmodernist Future (page 21)
-
6 The Project of a Postmodernist Theory of History (page 25)
-
-
PART 2 Postmodernity as the Triumph of Continuity: Structural Postmodernism (page 27)
-
7 Postmodernism's Emergence in an Unlikely Setting (page 29)
-
8 An Early Redefinition of Progress's Destination (page 30)
-
9 Views with Postmodernist Affinities (page 33)
-
10 The First Twentieth-Century Postmodernist: Alexandre Kojève (page 38)
-
11 The Flourishing of Structural Postmodernism (1945 - 65) (page 43)
-
12 The Fading of Structural Postmodernism and a Triumphal Exception: Francis Fukuyama (page 51)
-
13 Insights and Problems (page 54)
-
-
PART 3 Postmodernity as the Age of Dominant Change: Poststructuralist Postmodernism (page 57)
-
14 A Prelude to Poststructuralist Postmodernism (page 59)
-
15 Narrativist History in the Poststructuralist Mode (page 72)
-
16 In the Eye of the Storm: The Poststructuralist Postmodernist Concept of Truth (page 89)
-
17 The Metanarrative Controversy (page 122)
-
18 Poststructuralist Postmodernists on the Individual and the Utility of History (page 153)
-
-
PART 4 Poststructuralist Postmodernism and the Reshaping of Society (page 167)
-
19 What Kind of Marxism in Postmodernity? (page 169)
-
20 Postmodernism and Feminist History (page 184)
-
-
PART 5 Concluding Observations (page 191)
-
Notes (page 209)
-
Select Bibliography (page 223)
-
Index (page 237)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
---|---|---|
CS | 14.1 (Jan. 1985): 89-90 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28198501%2914%3A1%3C89%3AVOHIWE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F |
![](/image-service/v979v340b1530044041/full/full/0/default.png)
Citable Link
Published: c2003
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- 9780226072807 (paper)
- 9780226072791 (hardcover)
- 9780226072814 (ebook)