Annotation
The aim of the class is to present the postmodern approach to history and evolution of postmodern thought. In the first part of semester, attention will be paid to the general methodology of structuralist historiography and the most famous French thinkers concerning Michel Foucault, Claude Lévi-Strauss, or Jacques Derrida.
The second part of semester will be focused on Anglo-American authors as Patrick Joyce, Hayden White, or Keith Jenkins and the metanarratives in postmodern works in relation to sociocultural extent of their present – the conception of discourse as an instrument of power or the limits of relation between the subjects and modernity.