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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... Century IMMANUEL KANT / 105 What Is Enlightenment ? / 106 MARQUIS DE CONDORCET / 110 Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind / 112 ERNST CASSIRER / 123 Nature and Natural Science / 124 NINETEENTH - CENTURY SOCIAL THEORY Introduction ...
... Century IMMANUEL KANT / 105 What Is Enlightenment ? / 106 MARQUIS DE CONDORCET / 110 Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind / 112 ERNST CASSIRER / 123 Nature and Natural Science / 124 NINETEENTH - CENTURY SOCIAL THEORY Introduction ...
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... century, and the end of this text, we find scholars withdrawing from the outwardlooking search for causes in favor ... centuries. Like the past itself, written history changes in style and.
... century, and the end of this text, we find scholars withdrawing from the outwardlooking search for causes in favor ... centuries. Like the past itself, written history changes in style and.
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... century of novel findings about the universe ushered in the modern era . The natural philosophy and Aristotelian ideas of the ancient Greeks were repudiated , signalling what historians refer to as the scientific revolution because it ...
... century of novel findings about the universe ushered in the modern era . The natural philosophy and Aristotelian ideas of the ancient Greeks were repudiated , signalling what historians refer to as the scientific revolution because it ...
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... century thought pouring into that great river of cumulative intellectual accomplishment we call the Enlightenment . Descartes ' long sojourns in the Netherlands and Sweden also remind us of the risks that the new natural philosophers ...
... century thought pouring into that great river of cumulative intellectual accomplishment we call the Enlightenment . Descartes ' long sojourns in the Netherlands and Sweden also remind us of the risks that the new natural philosophers ...
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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