The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age

Nigel A. Raab, "The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age "
English | ISBN: 0367896796 | 2020 | 210 pages | EPUB | 569 KB
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 world could barely be imagined. The digital world, built on algorithms and massive amounts of data, operates on radically different principles.