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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... individual ) , the mastery of the causeand - effect relations that run the world ( the idea of progress ) , and the capacity of language to describe the external world ( representation ) . The individual was the pivotal force in the ...
... individual ) , the mastery of the causeand - effect relations that run the world ( the idea of progress ) , and the capacity of language to describe the external world ( representation ) . The individual was the pivotal force in the ...
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... individual . The sense that humans had the power to change these factors and to arrive at accurate knowledge of the ... individuals were entitled to natural rights of life , liberty , and property , Locke concluded that the main ...
... individual . The sense that humans had the power to change these factors and to arrive at accurate knowledge of the ... individuals were entitled to natural rights of life , liberty , and property , Locke concluded that the main ...
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... individual actors . Human beings , the Scottish thinkers argued , acted on their self - interest within a structure of social mores and material constraints , and behaved in ways that produced complex patterns of social interaction . In ...
... individual actors . Human beings , the Scottish thinkers argued , acted on their self - interest within a structure of social mores and material constraints , and behaved in ways that produced complex patterns of social interaction . In ...
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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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