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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... THOUGHT Introduction FRANCIS BACON The Advancement of Learning RENÉ DESCARTES Discourse on Method JOHN LOCKE Essay Concerning Human Understanding ADAM SMITH The Wealth of Nations DAVID HUME That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science.
... THOUGHT Introduction FRANCIS BACON The Advancement of Learning RENÉ DESCARTES Discourse on Method JOHN LOCKE Essay Concerning Human Understanding ADAM SMITH The Wealth of Nations DAVID HUME That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science.
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... Method / 42 JOHN LOCKE / 50 Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 51 ADAM SMITH / 61 The Wealth of Nations / 62 DAVID HUME / 73 That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science / 74 Of the Origin of Justice and Property / 78 Of Scepticism ...
... Method / 42 JOHN LOCKE / 50 Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 51 ADAM SMITH / 61 The Wealth of Nations / 62 DAVID HUME / 73 That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science / 74 Of the Origin of Justice and Property / 78 Of Scepticism ...
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... method was as applicable to the social order as it was to the physical universe . Reacting to this , conservatives defended those different rhythms of human life stemming from people's attachment to the familiar and their varying ...
... method was as applicable to the social order as it was to the physical universe . Reacting to this , conservatives defended those different rhythms of human life stemming from people's attachment to the familiar and their varying ...
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... methods by which ships could determine their longitudinal positions while on the open ocean , far from the reference points of land . Better understandings of magnetism also led to the use of more accurate compasses . Along with these ...
... methods by which ships could determine their longitudinal positions while on the open ocean , far from the reference points of land . Better understandings of magnetism also led to the use of more accurate compasses . Along with these ...
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... method of experiment and induction that suggested a new relationship between knowing and doing . ' Mere observation of an object's essential qualities or form no longer sufficed . To gain knowledge , one had to use manual labor and ...
... method of experiment and induction that suggested a new relationship between knowing and doing . ' Mere observation of an object's essential qualities or form no longer sufficed . To gain knowledge , one had to use manual labor and ...
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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