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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... ideas of the ancient Greeks were repudiated , signalling what historians refer to as the scientific revolution because it involved the radical idea of interrogating nature directly and forever changed how inquirers thought about reality ...
... ideas of the ancient Greeks were repudiated , signalling what historians refer to as the scientific revolution because it involved the radical idea of interrogating nature directly and forever changed how inquirers thought about reality ...
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... ideas . Like a pebble thrown into a pond , this call for the reform of existing religious and political institutions ... idea that human beings were born as blank slates upon which the sensual traces of experience shaped one's destiny ...
... ideas . Like a pebble thrown into a pond , this call for the reform of existing religious and political institutions ... idea that human beings were born as blank slates upon which the sensual traces of experience shaped one's destiny ...
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... ideas about the cosmic order could lead to subversive action in the political realm . Implicit in the Enlightenment appeal to reason over reverence was the belief that human beings were capable of restraining their passions for their ...
... ideas about the cosmic order could lead to subversive action in the political realm . Implicit in the Enlightenment appeal to reason over reverence was the belief that human beings were capable of restraining their passions for their ...
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... ideas about the inexorable organic cycle of the human life - birth , vigorous growth to maturity , inevitable decay ... idea that a baby is born with a blank mind contrasted sharply with earlier assumptions of human corruption ...
... ideas about the inexorable organic cycle of the human life - birth , vigorous growth to maturity , inevitable decay ... idea that a baby is born with a blank mind contrasted sharply with earlier assumptions of human corruption ...
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... ideas to explain the momentum of change overtaking Europe , the United States , and most of the world drawn or forced into their orbit . MODERNITY'S FIRST CRITICS Nineteenth - century enthusiasts of science and reform took enormous ...
... ideas to explain the momentum of change overtaking Europe , the United States , and most of the world drawn or forced into their orbit . MODERNITY'S FIRST CRITICS Nineteenth - century enthusiasts of science and reform took enormous ...
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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