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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... Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective / edited by Joyce Appleby ... [ et al . ] . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references . ISBN 0-415-91382–9 — ISBN 0-415-91383–7 ( pbk . ) 1. Knowledge , Sociology of . 2 ...
... Knowledge and postmodernism in historical perspective / edited by Joyce Appleby ... [ et al . ] . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references . ISBN 0-415-91382–9 — ISBN 0-415-91383–7 ( pbk . ) 1. Knowledge , Sociology of . 2 ...
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... knowledge and postmodernism from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries . Like the past itself , written history changes in ... knowledge because 2 KNOWLEDGE AND POSTMODERNISM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.
... knowledge and postmodernism from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries . Like the past itself , written history changes in ... knowledge because 2 KNOWLEDGE AND POSTMODERNISM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.
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... knowledge because the publication in the seventeenth century of novel findings about the universe ushered in the modern era . The natural philosophy and Aristotelian ideas of the ancient Greeks were repudiated , signalling what ...
... knowledge because the publication in the seventeenth century of novel findings about the universe ushered in the modern era . The natural philosophy and Aristotelian ideas of the ancient Greeks were repudiated , signalling what ...
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... knowledge , replaced divine intention with instrumental reasoning , and offered outcomes as a standard for judgment . In other words , it had acquired a style , a form of life markedly different from the reverence , loyalty , and ...
... knowledge , replaced divine intention with instrumental reasoning , and offered outcomes as a standard for judgment . In other words , it had acquired a style , a form of life markedly different from the reverence , loyalty , and ...
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... knowledge of consequences , as Thomas Hobbes had said , and human beings learned through experience , as Locke had concluded , then the progressive acquisition of knowledge could usher in a new era for mankind . Until this time ...
... knowledge of consequences , as Thomas Hobbes had said , and human beings learned through experience , as Locke had concluded , then the progressive acquisition of knowledge could usher in a new era for mankind . Until this time ...
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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