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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... THOUGHT Introduction FRANCIS BACON The Advancement of Learning RENÉ DESCARTES Discourse on Method JOHN LOCKE Essay Concerning Human Understanding ADAM SMITH The Wealth of Nations DAVID HUME That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science.
... THOUGHT Introduction FRANCIS BACON The Advancement of Learning RENÉ DESCARTES Discourse on Method JOHN LOCKE Essay Concerning Human Understanding ADAM SMITH The Wealth of Nations DAVID HUME That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science.
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... Learning / 31 RENÉ DESCARTES / 41 Discourse on Method / 42 JOHN LOCKE / 50 Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 51 ADAM SMITH / 61 The Wealth of Nations / 62 DAVID HUME / 73 That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science / 74 Of the Origin ...
... Learning / 31 RENÉ DESCARTES / 41 Discourse on Method / 42 JOHN LOCKE / 50 Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 51 ADAM SMITH / 61 The Wealth of Nations / 62 DAVID HUME / 73 That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science / 74 Of the Origin ...
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... learning , they did so within a world that took its values from custom , its political order from monarchies , its religion from established churches , and its understanding of human purpose from the Bible . Hierarchical , orthodox ...
... learning , they did so within a world that took its values from custom , its political order from monarchies , its religion from established churches , and its understanding of human purpose from the Bible . Hierarchical , orthodox ...
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... learning , science became indelibly identified with secularism , and secularism , in turn , with modernity . There was , however , a profoundly spiritual component to the idea that divinity was revealed in the orderliness of the ...
... learning , science became indelibly identified with secularism , and secularism , in turn , with modernity . There was , however , a profoundly spiritual component to the idea that divinity was revealed in the orderliness of the ...
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... Learning , Francis Bacon wrote that " God hath framed the mind of man as a mirror or glass capable of the image of the universal world , and joyful to receive the impression thereof . " This conviction about the mind as a mirror has ...
... Learning , Francis Bacon wrote that " God hath framed the mind of man as a mirror or glass capable of the image of the universal world , and joyful to receive the impression thereof . " This conviction about the mind as a mirror has ...
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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