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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... beginning to the end : declaring not obscurely , that God hath framed the mind of man as a mirror or glass , capable of the image of the universal world , and joyful to receive the impression thereof , as the eye joyeth to receive light ...
... beginning to the end : declaring not obscurely , that God hath framed the mind of man as a mirror or glass , capable of the image of the universal world , and joyful to receive the impression thereof , as the eye joyeth to receive light ...
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... beginning , and in the end impassable ; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance , but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties , he shall end in doubts , but if he will be ...
... beginning , and in the end impassable ; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance , but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties , he shall end in doubts , but if he will be ...
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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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