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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... determined , why not explore the principles of economics , politics , and international relations in the same way ... determine and forge the forms of government best suited to the essential qualities of human beings . The world , it ...
... determined , why not explore the principles of economics , politics , and international relations in the same way ... determine and forge the forms of government best suited to the essential qualities of human beings . The world , it ...
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... determined " would not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being . " 2 As ... determine the quantity of blood circulated through the body . These studies led him to revise his earlier opinions and ...
... determined " would not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being . " 2 As ... determine the quantity of blood circulated through the body . These studies led him to revise his earlier opinions and ...
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... determine their real value and guard against being deceived . But I believed that I had already given sufficient time to languages , and likewise to the reading of the writings of the ancients , to their histories and fables . For to ...
... determine their real value and guard against being deceived . But I believed that I had already given sufficient time to languages , and likewise to the reading of the writings of the ancients , to their histories and fables . For to ...
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... determining the objects with which it was necessary to commence , for I was already persuaded that it must be with ... determine the means whereby , and the extent to which , a Discourse on Method 47.
... determining the objects with which it was necessary to commence , for I was already persuaded that it must be with ... determine the means whereby , and the extent to which , a Discourse on Method 47.
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... determined whether the foundations that I have laid are sufficiently secure , I find myself in a measure constrained to advert to them . I had long before remarked that , in relation to practice , it is sometimes necessary to adopt , as ...
... determined whether the foundations that I have laid are sufficiently secure , I find myself in a measure constrained to advert to them . I had long before remarked that , in relation to practice , it is sometimes necessary to adopt , as ...
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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