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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... Narrative , and the Philosophy of Science / 357 PAUL RICOEUR / 368 The Model of the Text / 369 POSTMODERNIST THOUGHT The De [ con ] struction of Modernity Introduction / 385 HAYDEN WHITE / 393 The Value of Narrativity in the ...
... Narrative , and the Philosophy of Science / 357 PAUL RICOEUR / 368 The Model of the Text / 369 POSTMODERNIST THOUGHT The De [ con ] struction of Modernity Introduction / 385 HAYDEN WHITE / 393 The Value of Narrativity in the ...
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... narrative that deliberately joins contemporary thought about knowledge to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century , the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , the grand social theorizing of the nineteenth century , and ...
... narrative that deliberately joins contemporary thought about knowledge to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century , the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , the grand social theorizing of the nineteenth century , and ...
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... narrative accounts , philosophers connected only a part of humanity - specifically the Hebraic tribes that settled in Judea and the Hellenic and Roman peoples of the Ancient World with the Germanic tribes who settled in Western Europe ...
... narrative accounts , philosophers connected only a part of humanity - specifically the Hebraic tribes that settled in Judea and the Hellenic and Roman peoples of the Ancient World with the Germanic tribes who settled in Western Europe ...
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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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