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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... experience shaped one's destiny , they imagined a reformed world where constructive early experiences could open humankind to endless improvement . With reform , the power of reason could become the source of emancipation from ignorance ...
... experience shaped one's destiny , they imagined a reformed world where constructive early experiences could open humankind to endless improvement . With reform , the power of reason could become the source of emancipation from ignorance ...
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... experience , that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism , but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion . For in the entrance of philosophy , when the second ...
... experience , that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism , but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion . For in the entrance of philosophy , when the second ...
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... experience has been limited to their own country . On the other hand , when too much time is occupied in travelling , we become strangers to our native country ; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of ...
... experience has been limited to their own country . On the other hand , when too much time is occupied in travelling , we become strangers to our native country ; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of ...
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... experience , in providing myself in the different situations into which fortune threw me , and , above all , in making such reflection on the matter of my experience as to secure my improvement . For it occurred to me that I should find ...
... experience , in providing myself in the different situations into which fortune threw me , and , above all , in making such reflection on the matter of my experience as to secure my improvement . For it occurred to me that I should find ...
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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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