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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... labours , ill tradition of knowledge over from hand to hand , and many other inconveniences , whereunto the condition of man is subject . For that nothing parcel of the world is denied to man's inquiry and invention , he doth in another ...
... labours , ill tradition of knowledge over from hand to hand , and many other inconveniences , whereunto the condition of man is subject . For that nothing parcel of the world is denied to man's inquiry and invention , he doth in another ...
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... labours may extend to other ages ) were not needful for the present , in regard of the love and reverence towards learning , which the example and countenance of two so learned princes , Queen Elizabeth and your Majesty , being as ...
... labours may extend to other ages ) were not needful for the present , in regard of the love and reverence towards learning , which the example and countenance of two so learned princes , Queen Elizabeth and your Majesty , being as ...
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... labour of man ; that numerous highly useful precepts and exhortations to virtue are contained in treatises on morals ; that theology points out the path to heaven ; that philosophy affords the means of discoursing with an appearance of ...
... labour of man ; that numerous highly useful precepts and exhortations to virtue are contained in treatises on morals ; that theology points out the path to heaven ; that philosophy affords the means of discoursing with an appearance 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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