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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... language as fundamentally social - indeed , as both chisel and glue for human communities . Individuals are bound by language and have no ability to change it , even though language changes over time . But Introduction 15.
... language as fundamentally social - indeed , as both chisel and glue for human communities . Individuals are bound by language and have no ability to change it , even though language changes over time . But Introduction 15.
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... language changes over time . But paradoxically , no definitions are ever absolute , since they shift with usage . Saussure's structural approach to language had a great impact on scholars trying to systematize their understanding of ...
... language changes over time . But paradoxically , no definitions are ever absolute , since they shift with usage . Saussure's structural approach to language had a great impact on scholars trying to systematize their understanding of ...
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... language , say the postmodernists ; language speaks us , imposing as it does a particular logic , aesthetics , and morality , or as Foucault would say , a discourse . Discourses , not impartial scientific investigations , define our ...
... language , say the postmodernists ; language speaks us , imposing as it does a particular logic , aesthetics , and morality , or as Foucault would say , a discourse . Discourses , not impartial scientific investigations , define our ...
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... language and reason up to the task of representing such a nature ? Our reliance on posts , as in postindustrial or postmodern , to locate ourselves in cultural times indicates that we still identify ourselves through old beliefs . We ...
... language and reason up to the task of representing such a nature ? Our reliance on posts , as in postindustrial or postmodern , to locate ourselves in cultural times indicates that we still identify ourselves through old beliefs . We ...
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... languages , and likewise to the reading of the writings of the ancients , to their histories and fables . For to ... language of Lower Brittany , and be wholly ignorant of the rules of rhetoric ; and those whose minds are stored with ...
... languages , and likewise to the reading of the writings of the ancients , to their histories and fables . For to ... language of Lower Brittany , and be wholly ignorant of the rules of rhetoric ; and those whose minds are stored with ...
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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