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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... existence , but , on the contrary , their social existence determines their consciousness . " 8 Embodying much of the Enlightenment outlook that he mocked - including an appreciation of the enormous material progress which capitalism ...
... existence , but , on the contrary , their social existence determines their consciousness . " 8 Embodying much of the Enlightenment outlook that he mocked - including an appreciation of the enormous material progress which capitalism ...
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... existence . With these insights , Boas fashioned a methodology for studying non - Western societies that challenged the West's self - serving biological determinism and ethnocentric standards for judging others . The West's absorption ...
... existence . With these insights , Boas fashioned a methodology for studying non - Western societies that challenged the West's self - serving biological determinism and ethnocentric standards for judging others . The West's absorption ...
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... . Although influenced by the skeptical current of his age , Descartes could not remain doubtful of one ultimate certainty , that of his own existence . RENÉ DESCARTES ( 1637 ) Discourse on Method PART I RENÉ DESCARTES /
... . Although influenced by the skeptical current of his age , Descartes could not remain doubtful of one ultimate certainty , that of his own existence . RENÉ DESCARTES ( 1637 ) Discourse on Method PART I RENÉ DESCARTES /
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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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