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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... interest , people carefully calculated their own advantage and sought out the best bargains . Moreover , they all responded in the same fashion , suggesting a uniformity that challenged the traditional view of human difference ...
... interest , people carefully calculated their own advantage and sought out the best bargains . Moreover , they all responded in the same fashion , suggesting a uniformity that challenged the traditional view of human difference ...
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... interest within a structure of social mores and material constraints , and behaved in ways that produced complex patterns of social interaction . In the absence of government interference , Smith held that individual trading led to the ...
... interest within a structure of social mores and material constraints , and behaved in ways that produced complex patterns of social interaction . In the absence of government interference , Smith held that individual trading led to the ...
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... interest in mathematics , especially coordinate or analytic geometry , led him to formulate a metaphysical theory based upon mathematical exactitude . Descartes was so certain of the primacy of mathematics to the representation of ...
... interest in mathematics , especially coordinate or analytic geometry , led him to formulate a metaphysical theory based upon mathematical exactitude . Descartes was so certain of the primacy of mathematics to the representation of ...
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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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