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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... less extend the soul of man , but God and the contemplation of God ; and therefore Salomon , speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing , nor the ear ...
... less extend the soul of man , but God and the contemplation of God ; and therefore Salomon , speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing , nor the ear ...
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... less disproof or excusation . 7. Another fault incident commonly to learned men , which may be more probably defended than truly denied , is , that they fail sometimes in applying themselves to particular persons : which want of exact ...
... less disproof or excusation . 7. Another fault incident commonly to learned men , which may be more probably defended than truly denied , is , that they fail sometimes in applying themselves to particular persons : which want of exact ...
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... less biased and more capable of delineating truth and reason . Descartes ' interest in mathematics , especially coordinate or analytic geometry , led him to formulate a metaphysical theory based upon mathematical exactitude . Descartes ...
... less biased and more capable of delineating truth and reason . Descartes ' interest in mathematics , especially coordinate or analytic geometry , led him to formulate a metaphysical theory based upon mathematical exactitude . Descartes ...
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... point to adopt the common opinion of philosophers , who say that Trans . by John Veitch ( New York , E.P. Dutton & Co. , 1912 ) , pp . 3-9 , 13-18 , 26-28 . the difference of greater and less holds only among the Discourse on Method/
... point to adopt the common opinion of philosophers , who say that Trans . by John Veitch ( New York , E.P. Dutton & Co. , 1912 ) , pp . 3-9 , 13-18 , 26-28 . the difference of greater and less holds only among the Discourse on Method/
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... less open to the most ignorant than to the most learned , and that the revealed truths which lead to heaven are above our comprehension , I did not presume to subject them to the impotency of my reason ; and I thought that in order ...
... less open to the most ignorant than to the most learned , and that the revealed truths which lead to heaven are above our comprehension , I did not presume to subject them to the impotency of my reason ; and I thought that in order ...
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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