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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... institutions . Outside of Great Britain , its American colonies , Switzerland , and the Netherlands , European absolutist monarchs and their established churches opposed the radical thrust of the new science and combatted it through ...
... institutions . Outside of Great Britain , its American colonies , Switzerland , and the Netherlands , European absolutist monarchs and their established churches opposed the radical thrust of the new science and combatted it through ...
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... institutions reached wider and wider circles . Scientific inquiry had acquired an activist partner , the philosophical reformer . In France , publicists of the new science like Voltaire and Denis Diderot came to view the Old Regime as a ...
... institutions reached wider and wider circles . Scientific inquiry had acquired an activist partner , the philosophical reformer . In France , publicists of the new science like Voltaire and Denis Diderot came to view the Old Regime as a ...
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... institutions , the relation between the sexes , and the public values in the United States . Sociology had gained its first and most classic expression in Tocqueville's Democracy in America . Looking back , one can see that from rather ...
... institutions , the relation between the sexes , and the public values in the United States . Sociology had gained its first and most classic expression in Tocqueville's Democracy in America . Looking back , one can see that from rather ...
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... institutions developed standards of evidence and proof . If methods and results were expressed in a clear and honest manner , the new scientists believed , any reasonably skilled individual should be able to reproduce an experiment and ...
... institutions developed standards of evidence and proof . If methods and results were expressed in a clear and honest manner , the new scientists believed , any reasonably skilled individual should be able to reproduce an experiment and ...
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... institutions and systems in which they lived . The scientists also considered themselves philosophers , historians , and theologians . During the Enlightenment , they asserted that the knowledge they gained in one realm of thought ...
... institutions and systems in which they lived . The scientists also considered themselves philosophers , historians , and theologians . During the Enlightenment , they asserted that the knowledge they gained in one realm of thought ...
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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