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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... consequences , as Thomas Hobbes had said , and human beings learned through experience , as Locke had concluded , then the progressive acquisition of knowledge could usher in a new era for mankind . Until this time , Europeans had ...
... consequences , as Thomas Hobbes had said , and human beings learned through experience , as Locke had concluded , then the progressive acquisition of knowledge could usher in a new era for mankind . Until this time , Europeans had ...
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... consequences as exemplified in Smith's observation that the competition of bakers and butchers produces the social benefit of good bread at low prices despite their simple desire to profit from their endeavors . This paradox of ...
... consequences as exemplified in Smith's observation that the competition of bakers and butchers produces the social benefit of good bread at low prices despite their simple desire to profit from their endeavors . This paradox of ...
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... consequences yielded to full - blown historical explanations based on impersonal political , economic , or social laws . Like a new modern litany , historians invoked the power of tendencies , processes , developments , objective forces ...
... consequences yielded to full - blown historical explanations based on impersonal political , economic , or social laws . Like a new modern litany , historians invoked the power of tendencies , processes , developments , objective forces ...
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... consequences rather than the awesomeness of the divinity's creative power . A runaway best - seller for a scholarly work , The Origin of Species gave scientific validation to other contemporary ideas about evolution . Here was progress ...
... consequences rather than the awesomeness of the divinity's creative power . A runaway best - seller for a scholarly work , The Origin of Species gave scientific validation to other contemporary ideas about evolution . Here was progress ...
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... consequences . In their eyes , rigorous examination , systematic experimentation , and vigorous debate among all comers would do a better job of verifying knowledge than formal systems of logic or the objectification of social phenomena ...
... consequences . In their eyes , rigorous examination , systematic experimentation , and vigorous debate among all comers would do a better job of verifying knowledge than formal systems of logic or the objectification of social phenomena ...
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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