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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... expression in Tocqueville's Democracy in America . Looking back , one can see that from rather modest seventeenth - century inquiries into the nature of plants and planets came a cascade of theories ricocheting from the physical to the ...
... expression in Tocqueville's Democracy in America . Looking back , one can see that from rather modest seventeenth - century inquiries into the nature of plants and planets came a cascade of theories ricocheting from the physical to the ...
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... expression . Using culture in the plural , Boas also demonstrated that only local studies could yield useful ... expressing their religion , their science Introduction 13.
... expression . Using culture in the plural , Boas also demonstrated that only local studies could yield useful ... expressing their religion , their science Introduction 13.
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... expressing their religion , their science , their laws , and their fantasies . Deeply private , culture ministers to ... expression to a universal drive for self - improvement expressed through the urge to truck and barter , as Smith had ...
... expressing their religion , their science , their laws , and their fantasies . Deeply private , culture ministers to ... expression to a universal drive for self - improvement expressed through the urge to truck and barter , as Smith had ...
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... expressions . With the founding of England's Royal Society in 1660 , a community of gentlemen practitioners set about the task of determining universal principles with great optimism . Their expectations were met in a number of ways as ...
... expressions . With the founding of England's Royal Society in 1660 , a community of gentlemen practitioners set about the task of determining universal principles with great optimism . Their expectations were met in a number of ways as ...
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... expressions of " modern " science seemed to threaten the very foundations of faith and security . During the Renaissance , thinkers placed classical philosophers of antiquity like Plato and Aristotle at the summit of human achievement ...
... expressions of " modern " science seemed to threaten the very foundations of faith and security . During the Renaissance , thinkers placed classical philosophers of antiquity like Plato and Aristotle at the summit of human achievement ...
Contents
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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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