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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... Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry / 266 RUTH BENEDICT / 279 Patterns of Culture / 281 CLAUDE LÉVI - STRAUSS / 296 The Savage Mind / 298 CLIFFORD GEERTZ / 309 Thick Description : Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / 310 MAX ...
... Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry / 266 RUTH BENEDICT / 279 Patterns of Culture / 281 CLAUDE LÉVI - STRAUSS / 296 The Savage Mind / 298 CLIFFORD GEERTZ / 309 Thick Description : Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / 310 MAX ...
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... common approach to the connections between scientific thinking and the new theories of society that would soon emerge with the Enlightenment . Arguing that human nature was essentially combative and evil , but giving human beings the ...
... common approach to the connections between scientific thinking and the new theories of society that would soon emerge with the Enlightenment . Arguing that human nature was essentially combative and evil , but giving human beings the ...
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... common principles independent of the actions of particular rulers or individual events . The Scottish Enlightenment , in this sense , redirected understandings of historical change to processes and away from events . The Enlightenment ...
... common principles independent of the actions of particular rulers or individual events . The Scottish Enlightenment , in this sense , redirected understandings of historical change to processes and away from events . The Enlightenment ...
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... this point to adopt the common opinion of philosophers , who say that Trans . by John Veitch ( New York , E.P. Dutton & Co. , 1912 ) , pp . 3-9 , 13-18 , 26-28 . the difference of greater and less holds only among the Discourse on Method/
... this point to adopt the common opinion of philosophers , who say that Trans . by John Veitch ( New York , E.P. Dutton & Co. , 1912 ) , pp . 3-9 , 13-18 , 26-28 . the difference of greater and less holds only among the Discourse on Method/
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... common sense ; requiring , as they must in this case , the exercise of greater ingenuity and art to render them probable . In addition , I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false , in order ...
... common sense ; requiring , as they must in this case , the exercise of greater ingenuity and art to render them probable . In addition , I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false , in order ...
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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