Författare: Roy Harvey Pearce

First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce’s Savagism and Civilization is a classic in the g …

A collection of some of Pearce’s best-known essays on historical criticism in which he suggests a way of going beyond positivist historiography and formalist explication de texie toward a criticism w …

Events of the past two decades have challenged many of the fundamental beliefs, institutions, and values of modern western culture–the culture of ’progress.’ Are science and technology really progre …