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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... critical philosophical benchmarks along the path of our narrative . They are significant because they introduce or summarize key understandings about human nature , cosmic design , what constitutes the good , the true and the beautiful ...
... critical philosophical benchmarks along the path of our narrative . They are significant because they introduce or summarize key understandings about human nature , cosmic design , what constitutes the good , the true and the beautiful ...
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... critical distinction between first causes which came from the will of God and second causes which represented the natural mechanisms through which that will was exercised . God's creation of women as helpmates to men would be a first ...
... critical distinction between first causes which came from the will of God and second causes which represented the natural mechanisms through which that will was exercised . God's creation of women as helpmates to men would be a first ...
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... critical differences between the sexes and various human groupings , led Darwin's cousin to develop eugenics , which the Nazis exploited in their campaign to promote so - called Aryan people over non - Aryans . Where science appears ...
... critical differences between the sexes and various human groupings , led Darwin's cousin to develop eugenics , which the Nazis exploited in their campaign to promote so - called Aryan people over non - Aryans . Where science appears ...
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... critical question : " Can free societies prevail without the philosophical foundation upon which they have rested for two hundred years ? Can the Enlightenment project survive Enlightenment fantasies ? " 15 We won't know until we move ...
... critical question : " Can free societies prevail without the philosophical foundation upon which they have rested for two hundred years ? Can the Enlightenment project survive Enlightenment fantasies ? " 15 We won't know until we move ...
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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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