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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... give the last word to these critics and commentators , who have engaged with the issues raised by postmodernists with increasing fervor in the last decade . They have shown what is at stake and what is involved in giving up on the ...
... give the last word to these critics and commentators , who have engaged with the issues raised by postmodernists with increasing fervor in the last decade . They have shown what is at stake and what is involved in giving up on the ...
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... gives a censure , That there is no end of making books , and that much reading is weariness of the flesh , and again ... give names unto other creatures in Paradise , as they were brought before him , according unto their Clarendon Press ...
... gives a censure , That there is no end of making books , and that much reading is weariness of the flesh , and again ... give names unto other creatures in Paradise , as they were brought before him , according unto their Clarendon Press ...
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... give law unto himself , and to depend no more upon God's commandments , which was the form of the temptation . Neither is it any quantity of knowledge , how great soever , that can make the mind of man to swell ; for nothing can fill ...
... give law unto himself , and to depend no more upon God's commandments , which was the form of the temptation . Neither is it any quantity of knowledge , how great soever , that can make the mind of man to swell ; for nothing can fill ...
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... give him his dispatch with all speed , lest he should infect and enchant the minds and affections of the youth , and at unawares bring in an alteration of the manners and customs of the state .... 2. But these and the like imputations ...
... give him his dispatch with all speed , lest he should infect and enchant the minds and affections of the youth , and at unawares bring in an alteration of the manners and customs of the state .... 2. But these and the like imputations ...
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... give , but are always good for you to follow .... But for this point of tender sense and fast obligation of duty ... give him offence , or whereby to be able to give him faithful counsel , or whereby to stand upon reasonable guard and ...
... give , but are always good for you to follow .... But for this point of tender sense and fast obligation of duty ... give him offence , or whereby to be able to give him faithful counsel , or whereby to stand upon reasonable guard and ...
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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