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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... material included here is pointed towards postmodernism - an intellectual phenomenon of recent decades . We close , however , with critics of postmodernism who summon us back to the " Enlightenment Project , " as the eighteenthcentury ...
... material included here is pointed towards postmodernism - an intellectual phenomenon of recent decades . We close , however , with critics of postmodernism who summon us back to the " Enlightenment Project , " as the eighteenthcentury ...
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... material world as seventeenth - century merchants created patterns of exchange that linked the newly - explored parts of the globe with metropolitan Europe . New goods , new labor systems , new levels of population , greater wealth ...
... material world as seventeenth - century merchants created patterns of exchange that linked the newly - explored parts of the globe with metropolitan Europe . New goods , new labor systems , new levels of population , greater wealth ...
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... material world which moved according to mechanical laws . He believed that mathematics provided a certain foundation for all metaphysical thinking and that scientists could accurately predict what would happen in the external world ...
... material world which moved according to mechanical laws . He believed that mathematics provided a certain foundation for all metaphysical thinking and that scientists could accurately predict what would happen in the external world ...
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... material prosperity also promoted the expansion of the slave trade which eventually brought ten million coerced Africans to the New World . No stranger to this irony , nor to the fact that the factory system imposed grueling work ...
... material prosperity also promoted the expansion of the slave trade which eventually brought ten million coerced Africans to the New World . No stranger to this irony , nor to the fact that the factory system imposed grueling work ...
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... material life , " he wrote uncompromisingly , " determines the general character of the social , political , and spiritual processes of life . It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence , but , on the contrary ...
... material life , " he wrote uncompromisingly , " determines the general character of the social , political , and spiritual processes of life . It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence , but , on the contrary ...
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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