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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... Observing men and women in their commercial transactions , economic writers reported that people knew what they ... observations , analyzers of world trade came up with a description of human nature that emphasized its constancy and ...
... Observing men and women in their commercial transactions , economic writers reported that people knew what they ... observations , analyzers of world trade came up with a description of human nature that emphasized its constancy and ...
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... observations in a magisterial description of the economy as a natural system . Human beings whom he described as ... observation that the competition of bakers and butchers produces the social benefit of good bread at low prices ...
... observations in a magisterial description of the economy as a natural system . Human beings whom he described as ... observation that the competition of bakers and butchers produces the social benefit of good bread at low prices ...
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... observation on the forms of life encoded in plants and animals , both fossil and living . Molding this enormous mass of detail into one grand explanation of the origin of homo sapiens , Darwin joined the fact of spontaneous and ...
... observation on the forms of life encoded in plants and animals , both fossil and living . Molding this enormous mass of detail into one grand explanation of the origin of homo sapiens , Darwin joined the fact of spontaneous and ...
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... observation , a relationship that had been building since the middle of the previous century . Nicholas Copernicus ( 1473-1543 ) and Johannes Kepler ( 1571-1630 ) applied mathematics to observation and provided two of the most famous ...
... observation , a relationship that had been building since the middle of the previous century . Nicholas Copernicus ( 1473-1543 ) and Johannes Kepler ( 1571-1630 ) applied mathematics to observation and provided two of the most famous ...
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... observation denied the power and mystery of God's perfect plan . Moreover , they ran the risk of sinful pride . Protestant practices of Bible reading did open up possibilities for individual interpretation of God's truths in ways that ...
... observation denied the power and mystery of God's perfect plan . Moreover , they ran the risk of sinful pride . Protestant practices of Bible reading did open up possibilities for individual interpretation of God's truths in ways that ...
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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