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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... objects seen as both things and goals . Dewey's stress on the collective , interactive aspect of knowledge ... object of study of the most positivistic of the social sciences , economics , which gave mathematical precision to ...
... objects seen as both things and goals . Dewey's stress on the collective , interactive aspect of knowledge ... object of study of the most positivistic of the social sciences , economics , which gave mathematical precision to ...
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... object that it seeks to represent is entirely arbitrary , but once it is established , it remains fixed . The sign , for Saussure , combines a sound with an object of signification . Most importantly , the sign , or word , takes its ...
... object that it seeks to represent is entirely arbitrary , but once it is established , it remains fixed . The sign , for Saussure , combines a sound with an object of signification . Most importantly , the sign , or word , takes its ...
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... object for analysis , scholars had passed from straightforward representations of external behavior to elusive theories about the wellsprings of the human imagination . BEYOND THE CRITICS OF MODERNISM : THE POSTMODERNISTS In The ...
... object for analysis , scholars had passed from straightforward representations of external behavior to elusive theories about the wellsprings of the human imagination . BEYOND THE CRITICS OF MODERNISM : THE POSTMODERNISTS In The ...
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... object of study to reveal and confirm the truth . Though mathematical principles and theories were often derived in isolated studies and tested in private laboratories , the knowledge produced became increasingly public . Many also ...
... object of study to reveal and confirm the truth . Though mathematical principles and theories were often derived in isolated studies and tested in private laboratories , the knowledge produced became increasingly public . Many also ...
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... object's essential qualities or form no longer sufficed . To gain knowledge , one had to use manual labor and mechanical skill in conducting experiments . Rather than deducing knowledge of particulars from commonly accepted general ...
... object's essential qualities or form no longer sufficed . To gain knowledge , one had to use manual labor and mechanical skill in conducting experiments . Rather than deducing knowledge of particulars from commonly accepted general ...
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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