Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective

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Joyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham, Allison Sneider
Routledge, Apr 16, 2020 - History - 576 pages
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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Contents

FRANCIS BACON
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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Joyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham and Allison Sneider are all in the History department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Joyce Appleby's most recent publications include Telling the Truth about History (1994) and Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination.

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