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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... equally dismissive of modern political philosophy . What is the difference , he asked , between saying " I want x ' and ' I have a right to x ? " 9 Convinced of the bad faith and obfuscation in modern systems of knowledge , he was in no ...
... equally dismissive of modern political philosophy . What is the difference , he asked , between saying " I want x ' and ' I have a right to x ? " 9 Convinced of the bad faith and obfuscation in modern systems of knowledge , he was in no ...
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... equally distributed ; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it , that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else , do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already ...
... equally distributed ; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it , that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else , do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already ...
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... equally good , if not a better , use of their reason than we do . I took into account also the very different character which a person brought up from infancy in France or Germany exhibits , from that which , with the same mind ...
... equally good , if not a better , use of their reason than we do . I took into account also the very different character which a person brought up from infancy in France or Germany exhibits , from that which , with the same mind ...
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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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