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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... Mind / 298 CLIFFORD GEERTZ / 309 Thick Description : Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / 310 MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR ADORNO / 324 Dialectic of the Enlightenment / 326 THOMAS KUHN / 338 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ...
... Mind / 298 CLIFFORD GEERTZ / 309 Thick Description : Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / 310 MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR ADORNO / 324 Dialectic of the Enlightenment / 326 THOMAS KUHN / 338 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ...
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... mind contrasted sharply with earlier assumptions of human corruption , dependency , wickedness , and original sin . Posited in a different intellectual milieu , Locke's notion of a tabula rasa might have remained with philosophy , but ...
... mind contrasted sharply with earlier assumptions of human corruption , dependency , wickedness , and original sin . Posited in a different intellectual milieu , Locke's notion of a tabula rasa might have remained with philosophy , but ...
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... mind to speculation , if not empirical testing . By exploring the symbolic significance of the most practical ... mind of man as a mirror or glass capable of the image of the universal world , and joyful to receive the impression thereof ...
... mind to speculation , if not empirical testing . By exploring the symbolic significance of the most practical ... mind of man as a mirror or glass capable of the image of the universal world , and joyful to receive the impression thereof ...
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... mind when postmodernism is mentioned . Foucault , who worked primarily with historical materials , used them to detonate a whole gallery of icons : the credibility of reforms effected under the banner of Enlightenment , the independence ...
... mind when postmodernism is mentioned . Foucault , who worked primarily with historical materials , used them to detonate a whole gallery of icons : the credibility of reforms effected under the banner of Enlightenment , the independence ...
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... mind of man to swell ; for nothing can fill , much less extend the soul of man , but God and the contemplation of God ; and therefore Salomon , speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that ...
... mind of man to swell ; for nothing can fill , much less extend the soul of man , but God and the contemplation of God ; and therefore Salomon , speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that ...
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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