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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... Capitalism / 215 " Objectivity " in Social Science and Science Policy / 241 NORMAN BIRNBAUM / 245 Conflicting Interpretations of the Rise of Capitalism : Marx and Weber / 246 CHALLENGES TO NINETEENTH - CENTURY THEORY : The Emergence of ...
... Capitalism / 215 " Objectivity " in Social Science and Science Policy / 241 NORMAN BIRNBAUM / 245 Conflicting Interpretations of the Rise of Capitalism : Marx and Weber / 246 CHALLENGES TO NINETEENTH - CENTURY THEORY : The Emergence of ...
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... sole beneficiaries of the new capitalist system . Rejecting the Scots ' description of evolutionary social change , Marx attacked Smith's account of the accumulation of 10 KNOWLEDGE AND POSTMODERNISM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
... sole beneficiaries of the new capitalist system . Rejecting the Scots ' description of evolutionary social change , Marx attacked Smith's account of the accumulation of 10 KNOWLEDGE AND POSTMODERNISM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
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... capitalism had wrought - Marx presented his improved science of society as believable because it had been cleansed ... capitalist class would bring about a new era . Sounding very much like a latter - day philosophe , he predicted that ...
... capitalism had wrought - Marx presented his improved science of society as believable because it had been cleansed ... capitalist class would bring about a new era . Sounding very much like a latter - day philosophe , he predicted that ...
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... capitalism , began discussing the free enterprise system as a natural environment that promoted the survival of the fittest in industrial society . As Herbert Spencer said of social failures , " The whole effort of nature is to get rid ...
... capitalism , began discussing the free enterprise system as a natural environment that promoted the survival of the fittest in industrial society . As Herbert Spencer said of social failures , " The whole effort of nature is to get rid ...
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... Capitalism , Weber wrenched " ethic " and " spirit " from their well - understood context and threw them into an utterly unexpected frame of reference . Ethics had heretofore belonged to secular inquiry about proper behavior , while ...
... Capitalism , Weber wrenched " ethic " and " spirit " from their well - understood context and threw them into an utterly unexpected frame of reference . Ethics had heretofore belonged to secular inquiry about proper behavior , while ...
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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