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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... civilization , seemed to find a place for every known fact , but it did so by denigrating those people without written languages who lived outside the commercial sway of the West . Evolutionary thinking swept into popularity . New work ...
... civilization , seemed to find a place for every known fact , but it did so by denigrating those people without written languages who lived outside the commercial sway of the West . Evolutionary thinking swept into popularity . New work ...
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... civilization has relied for its understanding of the world to a process called deconstruction , in which imaginative exposures of gaps , transgressive possibilities , or unintended indicators lead to a multiplicity of readings . Having ...
... civilization has relied for its understanding of the world to a process called deconstruction , in which imaginative exposures of gaps , transgressive possibilities , or unintended indicators lead to a multiplicity of readings . Having ...
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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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