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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... interpretation, away from reconstructing a chain of events to exploring their significance. Using a conceptual ... interpretations. This, in the proverbial nutshell, has been the trajectory of knowledge and postmodernism from the ...
... interpretation, away from reconstructing a chain of events to exploring their significance. Using a conceptual ... interpretations. This, in the proverbial nutshell, has been the trajectory of knowledge and postmodernism from the ...
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... interpretation , called hermeneutics , emerged and formalized methods of studying texts which distinguished understanding from knowledge . As we shall see , this distinction became the pivot for shifting in the early twentieth century ...
... interpretation , called hermeneutics , emerged and formalized methods of studying texts which distinguished understanding from knowledge . As we shall see , this distinction became the pivot for shifting in the early twentieth century ...
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... interpreted through language and practice . An uninterpreted world would be unintelligible . But the interpretation does not make the world the way it is , it allows it to show itself the way it is . " The pessimism that the ...
... interpreted through language and practice . An uninterpreted world would be unintelligible . But the interpretation does not make the world the way it is , it allows it to show itself the way it is . " The pessimism that the ...
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... Interpretation ' , " Journal of American History 74 ( 1987 ) , p . 1003 . 10. As quoted in Bruce Kuklick , The Rise ... Interpretations of the Rise of Capitalism : Marx and Weber , " British Journal of Sociology 4 ( 1953 ) , p . 134 . 14 ...
... Interpretation ' , " Journal of American History 74 ( 1987 ) , p . 1003 . 10. As quoted in Bruce Kuklick , The Rise ... Interpretations of the Rise of Capitalism : Marx and Weber , " British Journal of Sociology 4 ( 1953 ) , p . 134 . 14 ...
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... interpretation of God's truths in ways that subverted the sanctioned explanations of Catholic clerics . Yet in an era when people believed in the power of witchcraft , the presence of occult forces , and the proximity of the Last ...
... interpretation of God's truths in ways that subverted the sanctioned explanations of Catholic clerics . Yet in an era when people believed in the power of witchcraft , the presence of occult forces , and the proximity of the Last ...
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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