Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical PerspectiveJoyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham, Allison Sneider This comprehensive reader chronicles the western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries while providing the historical context for the postmodernist thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty and Hayden White, and the challenges their ideas have posed to our conventional ways of thinking, writing and knowing. |
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... Enlightenment / 326 THOMAS KUHN / 338 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions / 340 ALASDAIR MACINTYRE / 356 Epistemological Crises , Dramatic Narrative , and the Philosophy of Science / 357 PAUL RICOEUR / 368 The Model of the Text ...
... Enlightenment / 326 THOMAS KUHN / 338 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions / 340 ALASDAIR MACINTYRE / 356 Epistemological Crises , Dramatic Narrative , and the Philosophy of Science / 357 PAUL RICOEUR / 368 The Model of the Text ...
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... Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , the grand social theorizing of the nineteenth century , and the growing skepticism about objective truths which has flowered in the postmodernist movement of the last quarter century . The ...
... Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , the grand social theorizing of the nineteenth century , and the growing skepticism about objective truths which has flowered in the postmodernist movement of the last quarter century . The ...
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... Enlightenment . Descartes ' long sojourns in the Netherlands and Sweden also remind us of the risks that the new natural philosophers took in challenging the monopoly of the Church and its claim to be the sole authority on truth and the ...
... Enlightenment . Descartes ' long sojourns in the Netherlands and Sweden also remind us of the risks that the new natural philosophers took in challenging the monopoly of the Church and its claim to be the sole authority on truth and the ...
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... Enlightenment brought forth the Modern Era . Here the pilots of the ship of science acquired their first barnacle of hypocrisy , for Western prosperity , which nourished these expectations of marvelous change , was built in part on the ...
... Enlightenment brought forth the Modern Era . Here the pilots of the ship of science acquired their first barnacle of hypocrisy , for Western prosperity , which nourished these expectations of marvelous change , was built in part on the ...
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... Enlightenment's favorable orientation to social reform and to the scientific exploitation of nature converged at the end of the eighteenth century in an assault upon absolutism . The American Revolution , followed by the French ...
... Enlightenment's favorable orientation to social reform and to the scientific exploitation of nature converged at the end of the eighteenth century in an assault upon absolutism . The American Revolution , followed by the French ...
Contents
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JOHN LOCKE | 50 |
ADAM SMITH | 61 |
IMMANUEL KANT | 105 |
ERNST CASSIRER | 123 |
Introduction | 137 |
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE | 145 |
KARL MARX | 164 |
JOHN DEWEY | 265 |
RUTH BENEDICT | 279 |
CLAUDE LÉVISTRAUSS | 296 |
CLIFFORD GEERTZ | 309 |
MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR ADORNO | 324 |
Introduction | 385 |
HAYDEN WHITE | 393 |
Introduction | 489 |
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE | 189 |
MAX WEBER | 213 |
NORMAN BIRNBAUM | 245 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 555 |
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