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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... living , and above all the emergence of the productive ideal , which summoned everyone to think of himself as a resource . British observers thought of the new order which began in Great Britain as naturally evolving . For Europeans ...
... living , and above all the emergence of the productive ideal , which summoned everyone to think of himself as a resource . British observers thought of the new order which began in Great Britain as naturally evolving . For Europeans ...
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... living was traded for the intrepidity of the aristocratic spirit . In Nietzsche's view , it was not democracy for the masses that held hope for social salvation , but rather the overcoming of the crass materialism of his age through the ...
... living was traded for the intrepidity of the aristocratic spirit . In Nietzsche's view , it was not democracy for the masses that held hope for social salvation , but rather the overcoming of the crass materialism of his age through the ...
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... living . Molding this enormous mass of detail into one grand explanation of the origin of homo sapiens , Darwin joined the fact of spontaneous and inheritable variations within species to a theory about how certain of these fortuitous ...
... living . Molding this enormous mass of detail into one grand explanation of the origin of homo sapiens , Darwin joined the fact of spontaneous and inheritable variations within species to a theory about how certain of these fortuitous ...
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... living in Athens from 384 to 322 B.C. , Aristotle analyzed natural forms in terms of immutable , unchanging essences . Considered authoritative by Renaissance thinkers , his views contrasted sharply with ways of thinking that sought to ...
... living in Athens from 384 to 322 B.C. , Aristotle analyzed natural forms in terms of immutable , unchanging essences . Considered authoritative by Renaissance thinkers , his views contrasted sharply with ways of thinking that sought to ...
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... living God who acted directly in human affairs , new notions of God as a type of " clock - maker " setting a mechanical universe in motion and retreating to distant and passive observation seemed particularly threatening . These ...
... living God who acted directly in human affairs , new notions of God as a type of " clock - maker " setting a mechanical universe in motion and retreating to distant and passive observation seemed particularly threatening . These ...
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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