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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... economic analyzers saw constancy and reasonableness and began tracing the spring of economic life to what they called natural human predispositions . SCHOLARLY EXPLANATIONS OF THE MARKET The market a word that slowly changed from a ...
... economic analyzers saw constancy and reasonableness and began tracing the spring of economic life to what they called natural human predispositions . SCHOLARLY EXPLANATIONS OF THE MARKET The market a word that slowly changed from a ...
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... economy as a natural system . Human beings whom he described as inherently disposed to truck and barter sought their self ... economic life , the thinkers of the so - called Scottish Enlightenment imagined an entity called society — an ...
... economy as a natural system . Human beings whom he described as inherently disposed to truck and barter sought their self ... economic life , the thinkers of the so - called Scottish Enlightenment imagined an entity called society — an ...
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... economic , or social laws . Like a new modern litany , historians invoked the power of tendencies , processes ... economies marked by customary practices , threats of famine , local trade , and the conspicuous spending of rulers ...
... economic , or social laws . Like a new modern litany , historians invoked the power of tendencies , processes ... economies marked by customary practices , threats of famine , local trade , and the conspicuous spending of rulers ...
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... economics , which gave mathematical precision to the setting of rates and prices . Yet Weber provocatively maintained that the values of precapitalist societies had acted as impediments to economic change . Hence scholars had to ask ...
... economics , which gave mathematical precision to the setting of rates and prices . Yet Weber provocatively maintained that the values of precapitalist societies had acted as impediments to economic change . Hence scholars had to ask ...
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... economic advance of Protestant countries . Tracing their break with traditional values to their ardent embrace of a calling , their pleasure - deferring self - discipline , their obsessive rationality , and their stern defiance of ...
... economic advance of Protestant countries . Tracing their break with traditional values to their ardent embrace of a calling , their pleasure - deferring self - discipline , their obsessive rationality , and their stern defiance of ...
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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