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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... called historiography . These shifts remind us that history belongs to a people's intellectual life . Like life itself , its truths are cumulative ; like life , it is subject to abrupt shifts of direction . In all intellectual ...
... called historiography . These shifts remind us that history belongs to a people's intellectual life . Like life itself , its truths are cumulative ; like life , it is subject to abrupt shifts of direction . In all intellectual ...
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... called - could benefit mankind ; it could be turned to useful purposes . The state - established churches of Europe , whether Catholic or Protestant , exercised great power over public discussions . Recognizing this , Bacon made a ...
... called - could benefit mankind ; it could be turned to useful purposes . The state - established churches of Europe , whether Catholic or Protestant , exercised great power over public discussions . Recognizing this , Bacon made a ...
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... called this universal history . While all societies tend to promote an ethnocentric view of the world , this European formula went further and incorporated all of the world in its own history . Since the links between contemporary ...
... called this universal history . While all societies tend to promote an ethnocentric view of the world , this European formula went further and incorporated all of the world in its own history . Since the links between contemporary ...
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... called natural human predispositions . SCHOLARLY EXPLANATIONS OF THE MARKET The market a word that slowly changed from a reference to local sites for selling farm produce to an indicator of the dense circuitry of goods and payments ...
... called natural human predispositions . SCHOLARLY EXPLANATIONS OF THE MARKET The market a word that slowly changed from a reference to local sites for selling farm produce to an indicator of the dense circuitry of goods and payments ...
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... called conjectural history , a larger interpretive frame for explaining the development of private property and the ... called Scottish Enlightenment imagined an entity called society — an informal realm of being and action which , as ...
... called conjectural history , a larger interpretive frame for explaining the development of private property and the ... called Scottish Enlightenment imagined an entity called society — an informal realm of being and action which , as ...
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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