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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... matter in terms of a combination of earth , air , water , and fire , new models pursued analyses based on pressure , magnetism , acceleration , mass , and gravity . For those believing that man had continually degenerated from the ...
... matter in terms of a combination of earth , air , water , and fire , new models pursued analyses based on pressure , magnetism , acceleration , mass , and gravity . For those believing that man had continually degenerated from the ...
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... matter falleth out besides their experience , to the prejudice of the causes they handle : so by like reason it cannot be but a matter of doubtful consequence if states be managed by empiric statesmen , not well mingled with men ...
... matter falleth out besides their experience , to the prejudice of the causes they handle : so by like reason it cannot be but a matter of doubtful consequence if states be managed by empiric statesmen , not well mingled with men ...
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... matters by that which they find wanting in them in smaller .... I refer them also to that which Plato said of his ... matter or words : so that in reason as well as in experience there fall out to be these three distempers ( as I may ...
... matters by that which they find wanting in them in smaller .... I refer them also to that which Plato said of his ... matter or words : so that in reason as well as in experience there fall out to be these three distempers ( as I may ...
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... matter , worth of subject , soundness of argument , life of invention , or depth of judgement .... 3. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning , when men study words and not matter .... 5. The second which followeth is in ...
... matter , worth of subject , soundness of argument , life of invention , or depth of judgement .... 3. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning , when men study words and not matter .... 5. The second which followeth is in ...
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... matter of fact ; or else of matter of art and opinion . As to the former , we see the experience and inconvenience of this error in ecclesiastical history ; which hath too easily received and registered reports and narrations of ...
... matter of fact ; or else of matter of art and opinion . As to the former , we see the experience and inconvenience of this error in ecclesiastical history ; which hath too easily received and registered reports and narrations of ...
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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