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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... action in the political realm . Implicit in the Enlightenment appeal to reason over reverence was the belief that human beings were capable of restraining their passions for their own good rather than doing so out of fear of punishment ...
... action in the political realm . Implicit in the Enlightenment appeal to reason over reverence was the belief that human beings were capable of restraining their passions for their own good rather than doing so out of fear of punishment ...
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... action . Prior to the eighteenth century , events were variously attributed to Providence - that is , God's personal interference in human affairs - or contingencies , like the outbreak of plague or the invasion of a foreign army , or ...
... action . Prior to the eighteenth century , events were variously attributed to Providence - that is , God's personal interference in human affairs - or contingencies , like the outbreak of plague or the invasion of a foreign army , or ...
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... action which , as one scholar noted , was not subject to the laws of the state , but " on the contrary , subjected the state to its own laws . " 5 Whereas Christian divines and political philosophers alike had depicted the state of ...
... action which , as one scholar noted , was not subject to the laws of the state , but " on the contrary , subjected the state to its own laws . " 5 Whereas Christian divines and political philosophers alike had depicted the state of ...
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... action possible . This social - scientific view of culture has now found a place in ordinary conversation , as the debates on multiculturalism indicate . The one distinctive American school of philosophy - that of pragmatism - emerged ...
... action possible . This social - scientific view of culture has now found a place in ordinary conversation , as the debates on multiculturalism indicate . The one distinctive American school of philosophy - that of pragmatism - emerged ...
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... action . Responsive to Marx's elegant explanation of how material factors structured thought , he wanted to explain how things happened as well as how the interpretation of those happenings entered into social action . His The ...
... action . Responsive to Marx's elegant explanation of how material factors structured thought , he wanted to explain how things happened as well as how the interpretation of those happenings entered into social action . His The ...
Contents
29 | |
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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