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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... Culture Concept and the Sociology of Science Introduction / 259 JOHN DEWEY / 265 Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry / 266 RUTH BENEDICT / 279 Patterns of Culture / 281 CLAUDE LÉVI - STRAUSS / 296 The Savage Mind / 298 CLIFFORD GEERTZ ...
... Culture Concept and the Sociology of Science Introduction / 259 JOHN DEWEY / 265 Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry / 266 RUTH BENEDICT / 279 Patterns of Culture / 281 CLAUDE LÉVI - STRAUSS / 296 The Savage Mind / 298 CLIFFORD GEERTZ ...
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... CULTURE The linchpin of social evolutionary theory was that all forms of life go from the simple to the complex through natural deterministic processes . Culture in this view was restricted to the civilized races and referred to their ...
... CULTURE The linchpin of social evolutionary theory was that all forms of life go from the simple to the complex through natural deterministic processes . Culture in this view was restricted to the civilized races and referred to their ...
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... culture ministers to the individual's struggle to find value . Functionally powerful , culture provides the repertoire of collective norms and forms that make coherent social action possible . This social - scientific view of culture ...
... culture ministers to the individual's struggle to find value . Functionally powerful , culture provides the repertoire of collective norms and forms that make coherent social action possible . This social - scientific view of culture ...
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... culture in relation to the practical enactments of their own society . Uncivilized peoples had culture ; modern Western ones followed reason . Convinced of the centrality of values in making coherent social action possible , America's ...
... culture in relation to the practical enactments of their own society . Uncivilized peoples had culture ; modern Western ones followed reason . Convinced of the centrality of values in making coherent social action possible , America's ...
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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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