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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... means , as I think , of gradually augmenting my knowledge , and of raising it by little and little to the highest point which the mediocrity of my talents and the brief duration of my life will permit me to reach . For I have already ...
... means , as I think , of gradually augmenting my knowledge , and of raising it by little and little to the highest point which the mediocrity of my talents and the brief duration of my life will permit me to reach . For I have already ...
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... means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations , had led me to imagine that all things , to the knowledge of which man is competent , are mutually connected in the same way , and ...
... means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations , had led me to imagine that all things , to the knowledge of which man is competent , are mutually connected in the same way , and ...
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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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