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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... natural phenomena . Deeply satisfying to those who were refashioning old Aristotelian pictures of nature , the new science also had an impact upon Western European political life . Where earlier investigators had approached the ...
... natural phenomena . Deeply satisfying to those who were refashioning old Aristotelian pictures of nature , the new science also had an impact upon Western European political life . Where earlier investigators had approached the ...
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... nature . Rejecting the arbitrary distinctions of monarchy and aristocracy , he announced that male and female were the distinctions of nature and good and bad the distinctions of heaven . The continued subordination of America to ...
... nature . Rejecting the arbitrary distinctions of monarchy and aristocracy , he announced that male and female were the distinctions of nature and good and bad the distinctions of heaven . The continued subordination of America to ...
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... nature as a horrible place where , in Hobbes's words , " life was solitary , poor , nasty , brutish , and short , " the new theorists stressed men and women's cooperative capacities and their ability to get along through their own ...
... nature as a horrible place where , in Hobbes's words , " life was solitary , poor , nasty , brutish , and short , " the new theorists stressed men and women's cooperative capacities and their ability to get along through their own ...
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... Nature was also summoned to disqualify women from full participation in the new liberal universe . Liberalism projected onto the future in a peculiarly forceful way its optimistic vision of possibility . The contrast , of course , was ...
... Nature was also summoned to disqualify women from full participation in the new liberal universe . Liberalism projected onto the future in a peculiarly forceful way its optimistic vision of possibility . The contrast , of course , was ...
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... nature metaphor in favor of experience , which for him meant an engagement with objects seen as both things and goals . Dewey's stress on the collective , interactive aspect of knowledge - production fit nicely with his concern for ...
... nature metaphor in favor of experience , which for him meant an engagement with objects seen as both things and goals . Dewey's stress on the collective , interactive aspect of knowledge - production fit nicely with his concern for ...
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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